diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/tesseract/tesseract5.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/tesseract/tesseract5.nix
index a8563a09e4c0..22059873e4bb 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/tesseract/tesseract5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/tesseract/tesseract5.nix
@@ -1,17 +1,31 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, pkg-config
-, curl, leptonica, libarchive, libpng, libtiff, icu, pango, opencl-headers
-, Accelerate, CoreGraphics, CoreVideo
+{
+  lib,
+  stdenv,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  nix-update-script,
+  autoreconfHook,
+  pkg-config,
+  curl,
+  leptonica,
+  libarchive,
+  libpng,
+  libtiff,
+  icu,
+  pango,
+  Accelerate,
+  CoreGraphics,
+  CoreVideo,
 }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "tesseract";
-  version = "5.3.4";
+  version = "5.5.0";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "tesseract-ocr";
     repo = "tesseract";
     rev = version;
-    sha256 = "sha256-IKxzDhSM+BPsKyQP3mADAkpRSGHs4OmdFIA+Txt084M=";
+    sha256 = "sha256-qyckAQZs3gR1NBqWgE+COSKXhv3kPF+iHVQrt6OPi8s=";
   };
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
@@ -21,26 +35,28 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     autoreconfHook
   ];
 
-  buildInputs = [
-    curl
-    leptonica
-    libarchive
-    libpng
-    libtiff
-    icu
-    pango
-    opencl-headers
-  ] ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [
-    Accelerate
-    CoreGraphics
-    CoreVideo
-  ];
+  buildInputs =
+    [
+      curl
+      leptonica
+      libarchive
+      libpng
+      libtiff
+      icu
+      pango
+    ]
+    ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [
+      Accelerate
+      CoreGraphics
+      CoreVideo
+    ];
 
+  passthru.updateScript = nix-update-script { };
   meta = {
     description = "OCR engine";
     homepage = "https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract";
     license = lib.licenses.asl20;
-    maintainers = [ ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ patrickdag ];
     platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
     mainProgram = "tesseract";
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytesseract/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytesseract/default.nix
index 23a26fd52a1b..a12730c9f584 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytesseract/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pytesseract/default.nix
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     packaging
     pillow
   ];
+  disabledTests = [
+    # https://github.com/madmaze/pytesseract/pull/559
+    "incorrect_tessdata_dir"
+    "invalid_tessdata_dir"
+  ];
 
   nativeCheckInputs = [ pytestCheckHook ];