diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 92554e654712..d672539299db 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -20538,6 +20538,64 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  pyocr = buildPythonPackage rec {
+    name = "pyocr-${version}";
+    version = "0.4.4";
+
+    # Don't fetch from PYPI because it doesn't contain tests.
+    src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "jflesch";
+      repo = "pyocr";
+      rev = version;
+      sha256 = "09s7dxin8ams0f3xab60f45l3nn236a8win9yfyq9aqy9mm946ak";
+    };
+
+    postPatch = ''
+      sed -i \
+        -e 's,^\(TESSERACT_CMD *= *\).*,\1"${pkgs.tesseract}/bin/tesseract",' \
+        -e 's,^\(CUNEIFORM_CMD *= *\).*,\1"${pkgs.cuneiform}/bin/cuneiform",' \
+        -e '/^CUNIFORM_POSSIBLE_PATHS *= *\[/,/^\]$/ {
+          c CUNIFORM_POSSIBLE_PATHS = ["${pkgs.cuneiform}/share/cuneiform"]
+        }' src/pyocr/{tesseract,cuneiform}.py
+
+      sed -i -r \
+        -e 's,"libtesseract\.so\.3","${pkgs.tesseract}/lib/libtesseract.so",' \
+        -e 's,^(TESSDATA_PREFIX *=).*,\1 "${pkgs.tesseract}/share/tessdata",' \
+        src/pyocr/libtesseract/tesseract_raw.py
+
+      # Disable specific tests that are probably failing because of this issue:
+      # https://github.com/jflesch/pyocr/issues/52
+      for test in $disabledTests; do
+        file="''${test%%:*}"
+        fun="''${test#*:}"
+        echo "$fun = unittest.expectedFailure($fun)" >> "tests/tests_$file.py"
+      done
+    '';
+
+    disabledTests = [
+      "cuneiform:TestTxt.test_basic"
+      "cuneiform:TestTxt.test_european"
+      "cuneiform:TestTxt.test_french"
+      "cuneiform:TestWordBox.test_basic"
+      "cuneiform:TestWordBox.test_european"
+      "cuneiform:TestWordBox.test_french"
+      "libtesseract:TestBasicDoc.test_basic"
+      "libtesseract:TestDigitLineBox.test_digits"
+      "libtesseract:TestLineBox.test_japanese"
+      "libtesseract:TestTxt.test_japanese"
+      "libtesseract:TestWordBox.test_japanese"
+      "tesseract:TestDigitLineBox.test_digits"
+      "tesseract:TestTxt.test_japanese"
+    ];
+
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ self.pillow self.six ];
+
+    meta = {
+      homepage = "https://github.com/jflesch/pyocr";
+      description = "A Python wrapper for Tesseract and Cuneiform";
+      license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
+    };
+  };
 
   pyparsing = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "pyparsing-${version}";