diff --git a/projects/tesseract-ocr/Dockerfile b/projects/tesseract-ocr/Dockerfile
index 573afbc60..e22232d89 100644
--- a/projects/tesseract-ocr/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/tesseract-ocr/Dockerfile
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 
 FROM gcr.io/oss-fuzz-base/base-builder
 MAINTAINER guidovranken@gmail.com
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libpng-dev libjpeg8-dev libtiff5-dev zlib1g-dev wget
-RUN wget https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/releases/download/1.77.0/leptonica-1.77.0.tar.gz
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y autoconf automake libtool pkg-config libpng-dev libjpeg8-dev libtiff5-dev zlib1g-dev
+RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danbloomberg/leptonica
 RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
 RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata
 RUN git clone https://github.com/guidovranken/tesseract-ocr-fuzzers
diff --git a/projects/tesseract-ocr/build.sh b/projects/tesseract-ocr/build.sh
index ca6657270..8e84543c5 100755
--- a/projects/tesseract-ocr/build.sh
+++ b/projects/tesseract-ocr/build.sh
@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-cd $SRC
-tar zxf leptonica-1.77.0.tar.gz
-cd leptonica-1.77.0
+cd $SRC/leptonica
+./autogen.sh
 ./configure
 make -j$(nproc)
 make install