diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9ea09f1..bdf5846 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@ tensorflow-gpu < 2.0  # Needed for sbb_text_linedetector
 
 ocrd >= 2.3.1
 
-ocrd_tesserocr >= 0.8.1
+# XXX See https://github.com/OCR-D/ocrd_tesserocr/issues/135
+# ocrd_tesserocr >= 0.8.XXX
+https://github.com/mikegerber/ocrd_tesserocr/archive/fix/set-pcgtsid.tar.gz
 
 ocrd_calamari >= 0.0.6