diff --git a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-4.2.1.ebuild b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-4.2.1.ebuild
index 74fb2c23550ad..04857f70dc55a 100644
--- a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-4.2.1.ebuild
+++ b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-4.2.1.ebuild
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ FFMPEG_FLAG_MAP=(
 		# libavfilter options
 		appkit
 		bs2b:libbs2b chromaprint cuda:cuda-llvm flite:libflite frei0r
-		fribidi:libfribidi fontconfig ladspa libass lv2 truetype:libfreetype vidstab:libvidstab
+		fribidi:libfribidi fontconfig ladspa libass libtesseract lv2 truetype:libfreetype vidstab:libvidstab
 		rubberband:librubberband zeromq:libzmq zimg:libzimg
 		# libswresample options
 		libsoxr
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	libilbc? ( >=media-libs/libilbc-2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	librtmp? ( >=media-video/rtmpdump-2.4_p20131018[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	libsoxr? ( >=media-libs/soxr-0.1.0[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	libtesseract? ( >=app-text/tesseract-4.1.0-r1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	libv4l? ( >=media-libs/libv4l-0.9.5[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	libxml2? ( dev-libs/libxml2:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	lv2? ( media-libs/lv2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] media-libs/lilv[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
diff --git a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-9999.ebuild b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-9999.ebuild
index b227d7197ca46..8de60207a3d8a 100644
--- a/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-9999.ebuild
+++ b/media-video/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-9999.ebuild
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ FFMPEG_FLAG_MAP=(
 		# libavfilter options
 		appkit
 		bs2b:libbs2b chromaprint cuda:cuda-llvm flite:libflite frei0r
-		fribidi:libfribidi fontconfig ladspa libass lv2 truetype:libfreetype vidstab:libvidstab
+		fribidi:libfribidi fontconfig ladspa libass libtesseract lv2 truetype:libfreetype vidstab:libvidstab
 		rubberband:librubberband zeromq:libzmq zimg:libzimg
 		# libswresample options
 		libsoxr
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ RDEPEND="
 	libilbc? ( >=media-libs/libilbc-2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	librtmp? ( >=media-video/rtmpdump-2.4_p20131018[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	libsoxr? ( >=media-libs/soxr-0.1.0[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	libtesseract? ( >=app-text/tesseract-4.1.0-r1[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	libv4l? ( >=media-libs/libv4l-0.9.5[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	libxml2? ( dev-libs/libxml2:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
 	lv2? ( media-libs/lv2[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] media-libs/lilv[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
diff --git a/media-video/ffmpeg/metadata.xml b/media-video/ffmpeg/metadata.xml
index 183c78718dcdc..338a8f562975d 100644
--- a/media-video/ffmpeg/metadata.xml
+++ b/media-video/ffmpeg/metadata.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 	<flag name="libilbc">Enables iLBC de/encoding via <pkg>media-libs/libilbc</pkg>.</flag>
 	<flag name="librtmp">Enables Real Time Messaging Protocol using librtmp (<pkg>media-video/rtmpdump</pkg>) in addition to FFmpeg's native implementation.</flag>
 	<flag name="libsoxr">Enables audio resampling through <pkg>media-libs/soxr</pkg>.</flag>
+	<flag name="libtesseract">Enables the OCR filter via <pkg>app-text/tesseract</pkg>.</flag>
 	<flag name="libv4l">Uses <pkg>media-libs/libv4l</pkg> for video4linux instead of direct calls. Adds support for more devices via the userspace library.</flag>
 	<flag name="libxml2">Uses <pkg>dev-libs/libxml2</pkg> to enable dash demuxing support.</flag>
 	<flag name="lv2">Enables lv2 audio filter wrapper.</flag>