diff --git a/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/template b/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/template
index afdac4ac30e..394f82aea2a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/template
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ pkgname=tesseract-ocr
 version=4.1.1
 revision=7
 _tessdataver=4.0.0
+create_wrksrc=yes
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include $(vopt_enable openmp)"
 make_build_args="all training"
@@ -44,8 +45,9 @@ pkg_lang() {
 }
 
 post_extract() {
-	mv ${XBPS_BUILDDIR}/tessdata-${_tessdataver}/* ${wrksrc}/tessdata
-	rmdir ${XBPS_BUILDDIR}/tessdata-${_tessdataver}
+	mv tesseract-${version}/* .
+	mv tessdata-${_tessdataver}/* ${wrksrc}/tessdata
+	rmdir tessdata-${_tessdataver}
 }
 pre_configure() {
 	NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh