diff --git a/vars/Debian.yml b/vars/Debian.yml
index bd5ffb1..0ceba76 100644
--- a/vars/Debian.yml
+++ b/vars/Debian.yml
@@ -6,3 +6,9 @@ __crayfish_user: www-data
 __httpd_conf_directory: /etc/apache2
 __crayfish_packages:
   - imagemagick
+  - tesseract-ocr
+  - tesseract-ocr-fra
+  - tesseract-ocr-deu
+  - tesseract-ocr-ita
+  - tesseract-ocr-spa
+  - tesseract-ocr-srp
diff --git a/vars/RedHat.yml b/vars/RedHat.yml
index 54b34ce..0812dee 100644
--- a/vars/RedHat.yml
+++ b/vars/RedHat.yml
@@ -6,3 +6,10 @@ __crayfish_user: apache
 __httpd_conf_directory: /etc/httpd
 __crayfish_packages:
   - ImageMagick
+  - tesseract
+  - tesseract-langpack-fra
+  - tesseract-langpack-deu
+  - tesseract-langpack-ita
+  - tesseract-langpack-spa
+  - tesseract-langpack-srp
+