diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/textextractors/TikaTextExtractor.java b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/textextractors/TikaTextExtractor.java
index 0d7d4b9a0f..74080e2fc4 100644
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/textextractors/TikaTextExtractor.java
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/textextractors/TikaTextExtractor.java
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ import org.apache.tika.parser.ParseContext;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.Parser;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.ParsingReader;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.microsoft.OfficeParserConfig;
-import org.apache.tika.parser.ocr.TesseractOCRConfig;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParserConfig;
 import org.openide.util.NbBundle;
 import org.openide.modules.InstalledFileLocator;
@@ -77,6 +76,7 @@ import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Set;
 import org.apache.tika.config.TikaConfig;
 import org.apache.tika.mime.MimeTypes;
+import org.apache.tika.parser.ocr.TesseractOCRConfig;
 import org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParserConfig.OCR_STRATEGY;
 import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.coreutils.ExecUtil.HybridTerminator;
 import org.sleuthkit.autopsy.modules.filetypeid.FileTypeDetector;
@@ -283,7 +283,12 @@ final class TikaTextExtractor implements TextExtractor {
         if (isOcrSupported()) {
             // Configure OCR for Tika if it chooses to run OCR
             // during extraction
-            TesseractOCRConfig ocrConfig = getTesseractConfig();
+            TesseractOCRConfig ocrConfig = new TesseractOCRConfig();
+            String tesseractFolder = TESSERACT_PATH.getParent();
+            // coming from https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=109454096#TikaOCR-OverridingDefaultConfiguration
+            ocrConfig.getOtherTesseractConfig().put("tessdataPath", PlatformUtil.getOcrLanguagePacksPath());
+            ocrConfig.getOtherTesseractConfig().put("tesseractPath", tesseractFolder);
+            ocrConfig.setLanguage(languagePacks);
             parseContext.set(TesseractOCRConfig.class, ocrConfig);
 
             // Configure how Tika handles OCRing PDFs
@@ -344,16 +349,6 @@ final class TikaTextExtractor implements TextExtractor {
             future.cancel(true);
         }
     }
-    
-    private TesseractOCRConfig getTesseractConfig() {
-        // GVDTODO look at this: https://tika.apache.org/3.0.0/configuring.html
-
-        // String tesseractFolder = TESSERACT_PATH.getParent();
-        //     ocrConfig.setTesseractPath(tesseractFolder);
-        //     ocrConfig.setLanguage(languagePacks);
-        //     ocrConfig.setTessdataPath(PlatformUtil.getOcrLanguagePacksPath());
-        return null;    
-    }
 
     /**
      * Run OCR and return the file stream produced by Tesseract.