diff --git a/inc/config.php b/inc/config.php
index 25031bfb..61325d10 100644
--- a/inc/config.php
+++ b/inc/config.php
@@ -985,15 +985,6 @@
     // Set this to true if you're using Linux and you can execute `md5sum` binary.
     $config['gnu_md5'] = false;
 
-    // Use Tesseract OCR to retrieve text from images, so you can use it as a spamfilter.
-    $config['tesseract_ocr'] = false;
-
-    // Tesseract parameters
-    $config['tesseract_params'] = '';
-
-    // Tesseract preprocess command
-    $config['tesseract_preprocess_command'] = 'convert -monochrome %s -';
-
     // Number of posts in a "View Last X Posts" page
     $config['noko50_count'] = 50;
     // Number of posts a thread needs before it gets a "View Last X Posts" page.
diff --git a/post.php b/post.php
index 27a45413..977bab05 100644
--- a/post.php
+++ b/post.php
@@ -1551,35 +1551,6 @@ function handle_post(Context $ctx)
                 }
             }
 
-            if ($config['tesseract_ocr'] && $file['thumb'] != 'file') {
-                // Let's OCR it!
-                $fname = $file['tmp_name'];
-
-                if ($file['height'] > 500 || $file['width'] > 500) {
-                    $fname = $file['thumb'];
-                }
-
-                if ($fname == 'spoiler') {
-                    // We don't have that much CPU time, do we?
-                } else {
-                    $tmpname = __DIR__ . "/tmp/tesseract/" . rand(0, 10000000);
-
-                    // Preprocess command is an ImageMagick b/w quantization
-                    $error = shell_exec_error(sprintf($config['tesseract_preprocess_command'], escapeshellarg($fname)) . " | " .
-                        'tesseract stdin ' . escapeshellarg($tmpname) . ' ' . $config['tesseract_params']);
-                    $tmpname .= ".txt";
-
-                    $value = @file_get_contents($tmpname);
-                    @unlink($tmpname);
-
-                    if ($value && trim($value)) {
-                        // This one has an effect, that the body is appended to a post body. So you can write a correct
-                        // spamfilter.
-                        $post['body_nomarkup'] .= "<tinyboard ocr image $key>" . htmlspecialchars($value) . "</tinyboard>";
-                    }
-                }
-            }
-
             if (!isset($dont_copy_file) || !$dont_copy_file) {
                 if (isset($file['file_tmp'])) {
                     if (!@rename($file['tmp_name'], $file['file'])) {
@@ -1627,11 +1598,6 @@ function handle_post(Context $ctx)
         }
     }
 
-    // Do filters again if OCRing
-    if ($config['tesseract_ocr'] && !hasPermission($config['mod']['bypass_filters'], $board['uri']) && !$dropped_post) {
-        do_filters($ctx, $post);
-    }
-
     if (!hasPermission($config['mod']['postunoriginal'], $board['uri']) && $config['robot_enable'] && checkRobot($post['body_nomarkup']) && !$dropped_post) {
         undoImage($post);
         if ($config['robot_mute']) {
diff --git a/tmp/tesseract/.gitkeep b/tmp/tesseract/.gitkeep
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29b..00000000