--- spectacle-6.6.90/CMakeLists.txt.vanilla	2026-05-29 15:57:12.437793031 +0200
+++ spectacle-6.6.90/CMakeLists.txt	2026-05-29 15:59:38.668446064 +0200
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
     PURPOSE "Add image editing capability to the screenshots"
 )
 
-pkg_check_modules(TESSERACT REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET tesseract)
+pkg_check_modules(TESSERACT IMPORTED_TARGET tesseract)
 
 # optional components
 find_package(KF6DocTools ${KF6_MIN_VERSION})
--- spectacle-6.6.90/src/CMakeLists.txt.vanilla	2026-05-29 16:01:56.648911119 +0200
+++ spectacle-6.6.90/src/CMakeLists.txt	2026-05-29 16:02:08.454330644 +0200
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
     LayerShellQt::Interface
     KQuickImageEditor
     ${OpenCV_LIBRARIES}
-    PkgConfig::TESSERACT
+    #PkgConfig::TESSERACT
 )
 
 # qt_add_qml_module doesn't know how to deal with headers in subdirectories so
--- spectacle-6.6.90/src/OcrManager.h.vanilla	2026-05-29 16:19:45.399107867 +0200
+++ spectacle-6.6.90/src/OcrManager.h	2026-05-29 16:20:37.293267703 +0200
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@
 
 #include <memory>
 
-#include <tesseract/capi.h>
+//#include <tesseract/capi.h>
+
+struct TessBaseAPI;
 
 /**
  * @brief Worker class for OCR processing in background thread
--- spectacle-6.6.90/src/OcrManager.cpp.orig	2026-05-14 10:42:27.000000000 +0200
+++ spectacle-6.6.90/src/OcrManager.cpp	2026-05-29 16:38:21.902721320 +0200
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
         m_worker = nullptr;
     }
     if (m_tesseract) {
-        m_tesseract->End();
+        //m_tesseract->End();
         delete m_tesseract;
         m_tesseract = nullptr;
     }
@@ -313,17 +313,19 @@
 {
     setStatus(OcrStatus::Processing);
     m_timeoutTimer->start();
-
+#if 0
     QMetaObject::invokeMethod(
         m_worker,
         [worker = m_worker, image, tesseract = m_tesseract]() {
             worker->processImage(image, tesseract);
         },
         Qt::QueuedConnection);
+#endif
 }
 
 void OcrManager::initializeTesseract()
 {
+#if 0
     auto cleanupTesseract = [this]() {
         if (m_tesseract) {
             m_tesseract->End();
@@ -411,6 +413,7 @@
         setStatus(OcrStatus::Error);
         cleanupTesseract();
     }
+#endif
 }
 
 void OcrManager::loadSavedLanguageSetting()
@@ -419,7 +422,7 @@
         qCDebug(SPECTACLE_LOG) << "OCR not available, skipping language loading";
         return;
     }
-
+#if 0
     QStringList savedLanguages = Settings::ocrLanguages();
     qCDebug(SPECTACLE_LOG) << "Loaded OCR languages setting from config:" << savedLanguages;
     qCDebug(SPECTACLE_LOG) << "Current OCR language code:" << m_currentLanguageCode;
@@ -458,6 +461,7 @@
         qCDebug(SPECTACLE_LOG) << "OCR languages already set to:" << combinedLanguages;
         m_activeLanguages = validLanguages;
     }
+#endif
 }
 
 void OcrManager::setStatus(OcrStatus status)
@@ -480,7 +484,7 @@
     if (!m_tesseract || langCodes.isEmpty()) {
         return false;
     }
-
+#if 0
     const char *datapath = m_tesseract->GetDatapath();
     QString tessdataPath = datapath ? QString::fromUtf8(datapath) : QString();
 
@@ -529,6 +533,8 @@
         qCWarning(SPECTACLE_LOG) << "Exception while setting up Tesseract languages:" << e.what();
         return false;
     }
+#endif
+    return false;
 }
 
 void OcrManager::setupAvailableLanguages(const QString &tessdataPath)
@@ -540,7 +546,7 @@
         qCWarning(SPECTACLE_LOG) << "Cannot enumerate OCR languages: Tesseract not initialized";
         return;
     }
-
+#if 0
     QStringList detectedLanguages;
 
     std::vector<std::string> languages;
@@ -584,6 +590,7 @@
     }
 
     qCDebug(SPECTACLE_LOG) << "Detected OCR languages:" << m_availableLanguages;
+#endif
 }
 
 QString OcrManager::tesseractLangName(const QString &tesseractCode) const
@@ -655,7 +662,7 @@
         Q_EMIT imageProcessed(QString(), false);
         return;
     }
-
+#if 0
     try {
         QImage rgbImage = image.convertToFormat(QImage::Format_RGB888);
 
@@ -689,6 +696,7 @@
         qCWarning(SPECTACLE_LOG) << "Exception in OCR worker:" << e.what();
         Q_EMIT imageProcessed(QString(), false);
     }
+#endif
 }
 
 #include "moc_OcrManager.cpp"