diff --git a/packages/tesseract/build.sh b/packages/tesseract/build.sh
index 648975a93..9897393fd 100644
--- a/packages/tesseract/build.sh
+++ b/packages/tesseract/build.sh
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source OCR engine available"
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=4.1.1
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=5.0.0-rc1
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=2a66ff0d8595bff8f04032165e6c936389b1e5727c3ce5a27b3e059d218db1cb
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=4bb7bc253edd77dc2bade54855e91d0858efac73df9f0117437337f358196987
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++, libtool, libuuid, leptonica, libandroid-glob"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="tesseract-dev"