diff --git a/packages/tesseract/build.sh b/packages/tesseract/build.sh
index a7f8ab134..df37c484d 100644
--- a/packages/tesseract/build.sh
+++ b/packages/tesseract/build.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ 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=2
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=3
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/archive/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=4bb7bc253edd77dc2bade54855e91d0858efac73df9f0117437337f358196987
 TERMUX_PKG_AUTO_UPDATE=true
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="libc++, libtool, libuuid, leptonica, libandroid-glob, zstd,
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="tesseract-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="tesseract-dev"
 TERMUX_PKG_FORCE_CMAKE=true
-TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="-DUSE_SYSTEM_ICU=on"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="
+-DUSE_SYSTEM_ICU=on
+-DTESSDATA_PREFIX=$TERMUX_PREFIX/share
+"
 # NEON checks in src/arch/simddetect.cpp don't work for i686 currently
 TERMUX_PKG_BLACKLISTED_ARCHES="i686"