diff --git a/packages/tesseract/build.sh b/packages/tesseract/build.sh
index e8958def9..ab0c3910f 100644
--- a/packages/tesseract/build.sh
+++ b/packages/tesseract/build.sh
@@ -3,27 +3,20 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="Tesseract is probably the most accurate open source OCR
 TERMUX_PKG_LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 TERMUX_PKG_MAINTAINER="@termux"
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=5.0.0-rc1
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=4bb7bc253edd77dc2bade54855e91d0858efac73df9f0117437337f358196987
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
-TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++, libtool, libuuid, leptonica, libandroid-glob, zstd"
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++, libtool, libuuid, leptonica, libandroid-glob, zstd, libicu, pango"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="tesseract-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="tesseract-dev"
-
-termux_step_pre_configure() {
-	export LIBS="-landroid-glob"
-
-	# http://blog.matt-swain.com/post/26419042500/installing-tesseract-ocr-on-mac-os-x-lion
-	export LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=${TERMUX_PREFIX}/include/leptonica
-
-	perl -p -i -e 's|ADD_RT], true|ADD_RT], false|g' configure.ac
-	./autogen.sh
-}
+TERMUX_PKG_FORCE_CMAKE=true
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="-DUSE_SYSTEM_ICU=on"
 
 termux_step_post_make_install() {
 	# download english trained data
-	cd "${TERMUX_PREFIX}/share/tessdata"
+	mkdir -p "${TERMUX_PREFIX}"/share/tessdata
+	cd "${TERMUX_PREFIX}"/share/tessdata
 	rm -f eng.*
 
 	local checksums
diff --git a/packages/tesseract/src-training-CMakeLists.txt.patch b/packages/tesseract/src-training-CMakeLists.txt.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f91bc7899
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/tesseract/src-training-CMakeLists.txt.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- ../src-training-CMakeLists.txt.orig	2021-11-09 10:38:49.403732886 +0100
++++ ./src/training/CMakeLists.txt	2021-11-09 10:38:18.379641180 +0100
+@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@
+ if (SW_BUILD)
+ target_link_libraries       (unicharset_training PUBLIC common_training org.sw.demo.unicode.icu.i18n)
+ else()
+-target_link_libraries       (unicharset_training PUBLIC common_training ${ICU_LINK_LIBRARIES})
++target_link_libraries       (unicharset_training PUBLIC common_training ${ICU_LINK_LIBRARIES} libandroid-glob.so)
+ endif()
+ target_include_directories  (unicharset_training PUBLIC unicharset ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+ generate_export_header      (unicharset_training EXPORT_MACRO_NAME TESS_UNICHARSET_TRAINING_API)