diff --git a/gnu/packages/ocr.scm b/gnu/packages/ocr.scm
index dc4930918a..c4e965941a 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ocr.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ocr.scm
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2020 Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
 ;;; Copyright © 2019 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
 ;;; Copyright © 2019 Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2021 Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -26,8 +27,19 @@ (define-module (gnu packages ocr)
   #:use-module (guix git-download)
   #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
   #:use-module (guix build-system python)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages autotools)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages backup)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages check)
   #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages curl)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages docbook)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages documentation)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages gtk)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages icu4c)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
   #:use-module (gnu packages python)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages xml)
   #:use-module (gnu packages image))
 
 (define-public ocrad
@@ -52,34 +64,71 @@ (define-public ocrad
     (license license:gpl3+)))
 
 (define-public tesseract-ocr
-  (package
-    (name "tesseract-ocr")
-    (version "3.04.01")
-    (source
-     (origin
-       (method git-fetch)
-       (uri (git-reference
-              (url "https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract")
-              (commit version)))
-       (file-name (git-file-name name version))
-       (sha256
-        (base32 "0h1x4z1h86n2gwknd0wck6gykkp99bmm02lg4a47a698g4az6ybv"))))
-    (build-system gnu-build-system)
-    (inputs
-     `(("leptonica" ,leptonica)))
-    (arguments
-     '(#:configure-flags
-       (let ((leptonica (assoc-ref %build-inputs "leptonica")))
-         (list (string-append "LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=" leptonica "/include")))))
-    (home-page "https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract")
-    (synopsis "Optical character recognition engine")
-    (description
-     "Tesseract is an optical character recognition (OCR) engine with very
+  ;; There are useful commits beyond the last official stable release.
+  (let ((commit "97079fa353557af6df86fd20b5d2e0dff5d8d5df")
+        (revision "1"))
+    (package
+      (name "tesseract-ocr")
+      (version (git-version "4.1.1" revision commit))
+      (source
+       (origin
+         (method git-fetch)
+         (uri (git-reference
+               (url "https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract")
+               (commit commit)))
+         (file-name (git-file-name name version))
+         (sha256
+          (base32
+           "11137a4aaay7qp64vdjd83hz1l089nzi5a0ql0qgk8gn79pyhi98"))))
+      (build-system gnu-build-system)
+      (inputs
+       `(("cairo" ,cairo)
+         ("icu" ,icu4c)
+         ("leptonica" ,leptonica)
+         ("pango" ,pango)
+         ("python-wrapper" ,python-wrapper)))
+      (native-inputs
+       `(("asciidoc" ,asciidoc)
+         ("autoconf" ,autoconf)
+         ("automake" ,automake)
+         ("docbook-xsl" ,docbook-xsl)
+         ("libarchive" ,libarchive)
+         ("libcurl" ,curl)
+         ("libtool" ,libtool)
+         ("libtiff" ,libtiff)
+         ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
+         ("xsltproc" ,libxslt)))
+      (arguments
+       `(#:configure-flags
+         (let ((leptonica (assoc-ref %build-inputs "leptonica")))
+           (list (string-append "LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=" leptonica "/include")))
+         #:tests? #f ; Tests currently result in a segfault
+         #:phases
+         (modify-phases %standard-phases
+           (add-after 'unpack 'fix-docbook
+             (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
+               ;; Don't attempt to download XSL schema.
+               (substitute* "doc/Makefile.am"
+                 (("http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl")
+                  (string-append (assoc-ref inputs "docbook-xsl")
+                                 "/xml/xsl/docbook-xsl-"
+                                 ,(package-version docbook-xsl)
+                                 "/manpages/docbook.xsl")))))
+           (add-after 'install 'build-training
+             (lambda _
+               (invoke "make" "training")))
+           (add-after 'build-training 'install-training
+             (lambda _
+               (invoke "make" "training-install"))))))
+      (home-page "https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract")
+      (synopsis "Optical character recognition engine")
+      (description
+       "Tesseract is an optical character recognition (OCR) engine with very
 high accuracy.  It supports many languages, output text formatting, hOCR
 positional information and page layout analysis.  Several image formats are
 supported through the Leptonica library.  It can also detect whether text is
 monospaced or proportional.")
-    (license license:asl2.0)))
+      (license license:asl2.0))))
 
 (define-public zinnia
   (let* ((commit "581faa8f6f15e4a7b21964be3a5ec36265c80e5b")
@@ -151,3 +200,4 @@ (define-public python2-zinnia
              #t)))))
     (inputs
      `(("zinnia" ,zinnia)))))
+