diff --git a/docs/topics/ocr_backend.rst b/docs/topics/ocr_backend.rst
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--- a/docs/topics/ocr_backend.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/ocr_backend.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,9 @@
 OCR backend
 ===========
 
-Mayan EDMS ships an OCR backend that uses the FLOSS engine Tesseract, but it can
-use other engines. To support other engines a wrapper that subclasess the
+Mayan EDMS ships an OCR backend that uses the FLOSS engine Tesseract
+(https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/), but it can
+use other engines. To support other engines crate a wrapper that subclasess the
 ``OCRBackendBase`` class defined in mayan/apps/ocr/classes. This subclass should
 expose the ``execute`` method. For an example of how the Tesseract backend
 is implemented take a look at the file ``mayan/apps/ocr/backends/tesseract.py``
@@ -13,3 +14,8 @@ OCR_BACKEND and point it to your new OCR backend class path.
 
 The default value of OCR_BACKEND is ``"ocr.backends.tesseract.Tesseract"``
 
+To add support to OCR more languages when using Tesseract, install the
+corresponding language file. If using a Debian based OS, this command will
+display the available language files:
+
+   apt-cache search tesseract-ocr