diff --git a/OCR/Dockerfile b/OCR/Dockerfile
index 0d54ab72..68787a90 100644
--- a/OCR/Dockerfile
+++ b/OCR/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
-FROM python:3.10-bullseye
+FROM python:3.10-slim
 
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install ffmpeg libsm6 libxext6 tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr -y
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install libgl1 tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr -y
+
+# Use larger "best" training data, rather than "fast"
+# Python one-liner because we don't have curl or wget
+RUN python3 -c 'from urllib.request import urlopen; open("/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata/eng.traineddata", "wb").write(urlopen("https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/raw/refs/heads/main/eng.traineddata").read())'
 
 RUN pip install poetry
 
@@ -8,7 +12,7 @@ COPY /ocr /ocr
 COPY poetry.lock .
 COPY pyproject.toml .
 
-RUN poetry install --without dev
+RUN poetry install --only main && poetry cache list | xargs -n1 poetry cache clear --all
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["poetry", "run", "api"]
 
diff --git a/OCR/dev-dockerfile b/OCR/dev-dockerfile
index f135fad6..d2e02d6b 100644
--- a/OCR/dev-dockerfile
+++ b/OCR/dev-dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
-FROM python:3.10-bullseye
+FROM python:3.10-slim
 
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install ffmpeg libsm6 libxext6 tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr -y
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install libgl1 tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr -y
+
+# Use larger "best" training data, rather than "fast"
+# Python one-liner because we don't have curl or wget
+RUN python3 -c 'from urllib.request import urlopen; open("/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata/eng.traineddata", "wb").write(urlopen("https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/raw/refs/heads/main/eng.traineddata").read())'
 
 RUN pip install poetry
 
@@ -8,5 +12,4 @@ COPY ./pyproject.toml /ocr/pyproject.toml
 COPY ./poetry.lock /ocr/poetry.lock
 
 WORKDIR /ocr
-RUN poetry install
-
+RUN poetry install && poetry cache list | xargs -n1 poetry cache clear --all
diff --git a/OCR/ocr/services/tesseract_ocr.py b/OCR/ocr/services/tesseract_ocr.py
index 9ce4a78e..c796a065 100644
--- a/OCR/ocr/services/tesseract_ocr.py
+++ b/OCR/ocr/services/tesseract_ocr.py
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ def _guess_tessdata_path(wanted_lang="eng") -> bytes:
             "/usr/local/share/tesseract/tessdata",
             "/usr/share/tesseract/tessdata",
             "/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/4.00/tessdata",
+            "/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata",
             "/opt/homebrew/share/tessdata",
             "/opt/local/share/tessdata",
         ]
diff --git a/OCR/poetry.lock b/OCR/poetry.lock
index 1802ca4b..73ee4c68 100644
--- a/OCR/poetry.lock
+++ b/OCR/poetry.lock
@@ -231,19 +231,6 @@ docs = ["cogapp", "furo", "myst-parser", "sphinx", "sphinx-notfound-page", "sphi
 tests = ["cloudpickle", "hypothesis", "mypy (>=1.11.1)", "pympler", "pytest (>=4.3.0)", "pytest-mypy-plugins", "pytest-xdist[psutil]"]
 tests-mypy = ["mypy (>=1.11.1)", "pytest-mypy-plugins"]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "cdifflib"
-version = "1.2.6"
-description = "C implementation of parts of difflib"
-optional = false
-python-versions = ">=3.4"
-files = [
-    {file = "cdifflib-1.2.6-cp310-cp310-macosx_12_0_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:bd236fc9e166e911f8ad87d89c1d1ade4e33df6f67e8c34fbe5f2bd89f0225f1"},
-    {file = "cdifflib-1.2.6-cp38-cp38-macosx_12_0_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:3b509f3a2b51abe45af36dc074a878ba3309a48968683a14e4104b46c2ef5b44"},
-    {file = "cdifflib-1.2.6-cp39-cp39-macosx_12_0_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:90c3bc02f3812f8def2e5b901345795a73e0547e9ea7aab2153200f4c84cab44"},
-    {file = "cdifflib-1.2.6.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:57517c390392a71d59e9d7e799e9b685eaf9e07812fc8f234540ff19c4b03e66"},
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "certifi"
 version = "2024.8.30"
@@ -3583,4 +3570,4 @@ multidict = ">=4.0"
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.10"
-content-hash = "2993b1bb088823677673c61c126ae057f2032e87edbe3a772fee9b9c21ba2396"
+content-hash = "45a5fb639bff707f562a3f4d44cb73158f74a9b0debb5c5bdd7c930931dd6944"
diff --git a/OCR/pyproject.toml b/OCR/pyproject.toml
index 8b4de10e..eb95539b 100644
--- a/OCR/pyproject.toml
+++ b/OCR/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,13 +10,12 @@ python = "^3.10"
 numpy = "^1.26.4"
 opencv-python = "^4.9.0.80"
 levenshtein = "^0.25.1"
-cdifflib = "^1.2.6"
 fastapi = {extras = ["standard"], version = "^0.112.1"}
 transformers = {extras = ["torch"], version = "^4.45.1"}
 pillow = "^10.3.0"
-
 datasets = "^3.0.1"
 tesserocr = "^2.7.1"
+
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 lxml = "^5.3.0"
 docopt = "^0.6.2"