diff --git a/mayan/apps/ocr/tests/test_api.py b/mayan/apps/ocr/tests/test_api.py
index c91e92a765..ab14eb91bb 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/ocr/tests/test_api.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/ocr/tests/test_api.py
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@ from django.test import override_settings
 
 from rest_framework import status
 
-from documents.models import DocumentType
-from documents.tests import TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL, TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_PATH
+from documents.tests import DocumentTestMixin
 from rest_api.tests import BaseAPITestCase
 
 from ..permissions import (
@@ -15,25 +14,13 @@ from ..permissions import (
 
 @override_settings(OCR_AUTO_OCR=False)
 @override_settings(DOCUMENT_PARSING_PDFTOTEXT_PATH='')
-class OCRAPITestCase(BaseAPITestCase):
+class OCRAPITestCase(DocumentTestMixin, BaseAPITestCase):
     """
     Test the OCR app API endpoints
     """
     def setUp(self):
         super(OCRAPITestCase, self).setUp()
         self.login_user()
-        self.document_type = DocumentType.objects.create(
-            label=TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL
-        )
-
-        with open(TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_PATH) as file_object:
-            self.document = self.document_type.new_document(
-                file_object=file_object,
-            )
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        self.document_type.delete()
-        super(OCRAPITestCase, self).tearDown()
 
     def _request_document_ocr_submit_view(self):
         return self.post(
diff --git a/mayan/apps/ocr/tests/test_models.py b/mayan/apps/ocr/tests/test_models.py
index 4379a210db..4e44c7e50a 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/ocr/tests/test_models.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/ocr/tests/test_models.py
@@ -6,32 +6,15 @@ from common.tests import BaseTestCase
 from documents.models import DocumentType
 from documents.runtime import language_choices
 from documents.tests import (
-    TEST_DEU_DOCUMENT_PATH, TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL, TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_PATH
+    DocumentTestMixin, TEST_DEU_DOCUMENT_PATH, TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL
 )
 
 
-class DocumentOCRTestCase(BaseTestCase):
+class DocumentOCRTestCase(DocumentTestMixin, BaseTestCase):
     # PyOCR's leak descriptor in get_available_languages and image_to_string
     # Disable descriptor leak test until fixed in upstream
     _skip_file_descriptor_test = True
 
-    def setUp(self):
-        super(DocumentOCRTestCase, self).setUp()
-
-        self.document_type = DocumentType.objects.create(
-            label=TEST_DOCUMENT_TYPE_LABEL
-        )
-
-        with open(TEST_SMALL_DOCUMENT_PATH) as file_object:
-            self.document = self.document_type.new_document(
-                file_object=file_object,
-            )
-
-    def tearDown(self):
-        self.document.delete()
-        self.document_type.delete()
-        super(DocumentOCRTestCase, self).tearDown()
-
     def test_ocr_language_backends_end(self):
         content = self.document.pages.first().ocr_content.content
         self.assertTrue('Mayan EDMS Documentation' in content)
@@ -57,7 +40,7 @@ class GermanOCRSupportTestCase(BaseTestCase):
 
         self.assertEqual('deu', language_code)
 
-        with open(TEST_DEU_DOCUMENT_PATH) as file_object:
+        with open(TEST_DEU_DOCUMENT_PATH, 'rb') as file_object:
             self.document = self.document_type.new_document(
                 file_object=file_object, language=language_code
             )