diff --git a/mkit.profiles.sh b/mkit.profiles.sh
index 9f0ea92..9e59716 100755
--- a/mkit.profiles.sh
+++ b/mkit.profiles.sh
@@ -468,6 +468,12 @@ profile_leptonica()
  add_run_dep leptonica
 }
 
+profile_tesseract()
+{
+ profile_leptonica
+ add_run_dep tesseract
+}
+
 profile_bzip2()
 {
  add_run_dep bzip2
diff --git a/modules/tesseract/build.sh b/modules/tesseract/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..11ec31d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/tesseract/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+build_tesseract()
+{
+ [ -d "${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig" ] && export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${prefix}/lib/pkgconfig"
+
+ build_raw_lite tesseract
+
+ return $?
+}
diff --git a/modules/tesseract/hooks/configure.sh b/modules/tesseract/hooks/configure.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ccd73f2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/tesseract/hooks/configure.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# generate Makefiles with cmake
+
+ cd ${BUILDDIR}/tesseract
+ cmake "${srcdir_tesseract}"  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${prefix}