diff --git a/mayan/apps/ocr/tests.py b/mayan/apps/ocr/tests.py
index 5db2166e10..dbe628b012 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/ocr/tests.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/ocr/tests.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from django.utils import unittest
 from documents.models import Document, DocumentType
 
 from .api import do_document_ocr
-from .models import DocumentQueue
+from .models import DocumentQueue, QueueDocument
 
 TEST_DOCUMENT_PATH = os.path.join(settings.BASE_DIR, 'contrib', 'sample_documents', 'title_page.png')
 
@@ -18,11 +18,7 @@ class DocumentSearchTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         # Start the OCR queue
         self.default_queue = DocumentQueue.objects.get(name='default')
-
-    def test_do_document_ocr(self):
-        self.document_type = DocumentType(name='test doc type')
-        self.document_type.save()
-
+        self.document_type = DocumentType.objects.create(name='test doc type')
         self.document = Document(
             document_type=self.document_type,
             description='description',
@@ -32,11 +28,57 @@ class DocumentSearchTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         with open(TEST_DOCUMENT_PATH) as file_object:
             self.document.new_version(file=File(file_object, name='title_page.png'))
 
+        # Clear OCR queue
+        QueueDocument.objects.all().delete()
+
+    def reload_ocr_runtime(self, language):
+        """
+        Forces the reloading of the language_backend for different languages
+        """
+
+        from ocr.conf import settings
+        from ocr import runtime
+
+        setattr(settings, 'LANGUAGE', language)
+
+        reload(runtime)
+        from .runtime import language_backend
+        self.assertEqual(unicode(language_backend.__class__), u"<class 'ocr.lang.{}.LanguageBackend'>".format(language))
+
+    def _test_ocr_language_issue_16(self, language):
+        """
+        Reusable OCR test for a specific language
+        """
+
+        self.reload_ocr_runtime(language)
+
+        # Clear the document's first page content
+        first_page = self.document.pages.first()
+        first_page.content = ''
+        first_page.save()
+
+        # Make sure no documents are queued for OCR
+        self.failUnlessEqual(self.default_queue.queuedocument_set.count(), 0)
+        DocumentQueue.objects.queue_document(self.document)
+        # Make sure our document is queued for OCR
         self.failUnlessEqual(self.default_queue.queuedocument_set.count(), 1)
 
-        do_document_ocr(self.default_queue.queuedocument_set.all()[0])
+        do_document_ocr(self.default_queue.queuedocument_set.first())
 
-        self.assertTrue(u'Mayan EDMS' in self.document.pages.all()[0].content)
+        # Make sure content was extracted
+        self.assertTrue(u'Mayan EDMS' in self.document.pages.first().content)
+
+    def test_ocr_language_german(self):
+        self._test_ocr_language_issue_16('deu')
+
+    def test_ocr_language_english(self):
+        self._test_ocr_language_issue_16('eng')
+
+    def test_ocr_language_russian(self):
+        self._test_ocr_language_issue_16('rus')
+
+    def test_ocr_language_spanish(self):
+        self._test_ocr_language_issue_16('spa')
 
     def tearDown(self):
         self.document.delete()