diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1125ef3742f..3a4b05e4c1e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 
+ * Disable OpenMP for Tesseract to work around performance issues ([pull #1201](https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp-presets/pull/1201))
  * Enable NVIDIA GPU acceleration for FFmpeg on ARM and POWER as well ([issue bytedeco/javacv#1894](https://github.com/bytedeco/javacv/issues/1894))
  * Add support for HEVC and Opus to FLV format in presets for FFmpeg ([pull #1228](https://github.com/bytedeco/javacpp-presets/pull/1228))
  * Build Leptonica with OpenJPEG for JPEG 2000 support
diff --git a/tesseract/cppbuild.sh b/tesseract/cppbuild.sh
index 11aee4ee760..fe654348dc1 100755
--- a/tesseract/cppbuild.sh
+++ b/tesseract/cppbuild.sh
@@ -46,30 +46,30 @@ LEPTONICA_PATH="${LEPTONICA_PATH//\\//}"
 
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$INSTALL_PATH/lib/pkgconfig/
 
-CMAKE_CONFIG="-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$LEPTONICA_PATH -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_PATH -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=$INSTALL_PATH/lib -DDISABLE_ARCHIVE=ON -DDISABLE_CURL=ON -DMARCH_NATIVE_OPT=OFF -DOPENMP_BUILD=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_TRAINING_TOOLS=OFF"
+CMAKE_CONFIG="-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=$LEPTONICA_PATH -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$INSTALL_PATH -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=$INSTALL_PATH/lib -DDISABLE_ARCHIVE=ON -DDISABLE_CURL=ON -DMARCH_NATIVE_OPT=OFF -DOPENMP_BUILD=OFF -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_TRAINING_TOOLS=OFF"
 
 case $PLATFORM in
     android-arm)
         patch -Np1 < ../../../tesseract-android.patch
-        $CMAKE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${PLATFORM_ROOT}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake -DANDROID_ABI=armeabi-v7a -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=24 -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE=BOTH $CMAKE_CONFIG -DOPENMP_BUILD=OFF .
+        $CMAKE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${PLATFORM_ROOT}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake -DANDROID_ABI=armeabi-v7a -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=24 -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE=BOTH $CMAKE_CONFIG .
         make -j $MAKEJ
         make install/strip
         ;;
     android-arm64)
         patch -Np1 < ../../../tesseract-android.patch
-        $CMAKE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${PLATFORM_ROOT}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake -DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=24 -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE=BOTH $CMAKE_CONFIG -DOPENMP_BUILD=OFF .
+        $CMAKE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${PLATFORM_ROOT}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake -DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=24 -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE=BOTH $CMAKE_CONFIG .
         make -j $MAKEJ
         make install/strip
         ;;
     android-x86)
         patch -Np1 < ../../../tesseract-android.patch
-        $CMAKE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${PLATFORM_ROOT}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake -DANDROID_ABI=x86 -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=24 -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE=BOTH $CMAKE_CONFIG -DOPENMP_BUILD=OFF .
+        $CMAKE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${PLATFORM_ROOT}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake -DANDROID_ABI=x86 -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=24 -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE=BOTH $CMAKE_CONFIG .
         make -j $MAKEJ
         make install/strip
         ;;
     android-x86_64)
         patch -Np1 < ../../../tesseract-android.patch
-        $CMAKE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${PLATFORM_ROOT}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake -DANDROID_ABI=x86_64 -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=24 -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE=BOTH $CMAKE_CONFIG -DOPENMP_BUILD=OFF .
+        $CMAKE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=${PLATFORM_ROOT}/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake -DANDROID_ABI=x86_64 -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=24 -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_INCLUDE=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_LIBRARY=BOTH -DCMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_PACKAGE=BOTH $CMAKE_CONFIG .
         make -j $MAKEJ
         make install/strip
         ;;
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ case $PLATFORM in
         make install/strip
         ;;
     linux-ppc64le)
-        patch -Np1 < ../../../tesseract-openmp.patch
         export CC="powerpc64le-linux-gnu-gcc -fPIC"
         export CXX="powerpc64le-linux-gnu-g++ -fPIC"
         $CMAKE -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME=Linux -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=1 -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR=ppc64le $CMAKE_CONFIG .