diff --git a/apps/server/src/services/data_dir.ts b/apps/server/src/services/data_dir.ts
index d0f34f01df..4bd8ec7ccb 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/services/data_dir.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/services/data_dir.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-"use strict";
-
 /*
  * This file resolves trilium data path in this order of priority:
  * - case A) if TRILIUM_DATA_DIR environment variable exists, then its value is used as the path
@@ -8,8 +6,8 @@
  * - case D) as a fallback if the previous step fails, we'll use home dir
  */
 
-import os from "os";
 import fs from "fs";
+import os from "os";
 import { join as pathJoin } from "path";
 
 const DIR_NAME = "trilium-data";
@@ -43,13 +41,14 @@ export function getTriliumDataDir(dataDirName: string) {
 
 export function getDataDirs(TRILIUM_DATA_DIR: string) {
     const dataDirs = {
-        TRILIUM_DATA_DIR: TRILIUM_DATA_DIR,
+        TRILIUM_DATA_DIR,
         DOCUMENT_PATH: process.env.TRILIUM_DOCUMENT_PATH || pathJoin(TRILIUM_DATA_DIR, "document.db"),
         BACKUP_DIR: process.env.TRILIUM_BACKUP_DIR || pathJoin(TRILIUM_DATA_DIR, "backup"),
         LOG_DIR: process.env.TRILIUM_LOG_DIR || pathJoin(TRILIUM_DATA_DIR, "log"),
         TMP_DIR: process.env.TRILIUM_TMP_DIR || pathJoin(TRILIUM_DATA_DIR, "tmp"),
         ANONYMIZED_DB_DIR: process.env.TRILIUM_ANONYMIZED_DB_DIR || pathJoin(TRILIUM_DATA_DIR, "anonymized-db"),
-        CONFIG_INI_PATH: process.env.TRILIUM_CONFIG_INI_PATH || pathJoin(TRILIUM_DATA_DIR, "config.ini")
+        CONFIG_INI_PATH: process.env.TRILIUM_CONFIG_INI_PATH || pathJoin(TRILIUM_DATA_DIR, "config.ini"),
+        OCR_CACHE_DIR: pathJoin(TRILIUM_DATA_DIR, "ocr-cache")
     } as const;
 
     createDirIfNotExisting(dataDirs.TMP_DIR);
diff --git a/apps/server/src/services/ocr/processors/image_processor.ts b/apps/server/src/services/ocr/processors/image_processor.ts
index 82c48bc8f8..bade5633f9 100644
--- a/apps/server/src/services/ocr/processors/image_processor.ts
+++ b/apps/server/src/services/ocr/processors/image_processor.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+import fs from 'fs';
 import Tesseract from 'tesseract.js';
 
+import dataDirs from '../../data_dir.js';
 import log from '../../log.js';
 import options from '../../options.js';
 import { OCRProcessingOptions,OCRResult } from '../ocr_service.js';
@@ -55,6 +57,7 @@ export class ImageProcessor extends FileProcessor {
                 await this.worker.terminate();
                 log.info(`Initializing Tesseract worker for language(s): ${language}`);
                 this.worker = await Tesseract.createWorker(language, 1, {
+                    cachePath: dataDirs.OCR_CACHE_DIR,
                     logger: (m: { status: string; progress: number }) => {
                         if (m.status === 'recognizing text') {
                             log.info(`Image OCR progress (${language}): ${Math.round(m.progress * 100)}%`);
@@ -97,8 +100,9 @@ export class ImageProcessor extends FileProcessor {
         try {
             log.info('Initializing image OCR processor with Tesseract.js...');
 
+            fs.mkdirSync(dataDirs.OCR_CACHE_DIR, { recursive: true });
+
             // Configure proper paths for Node.js environment
-            const tesseractDir = require.resolve('tesseract.js').replace('/src/index.js', '');
             const workerPath = require.resolve('tesseract.js/src/worker-script/node/index.js');
             const corePath = require.resolve('tesseract.js-core/tesseract-core.wasm.js');
 
@@ -108,6 +112,7 @@ export class ImageProcessor extends FileProcessor {
             this.worker = await Tesseract.createWorker("eng", 1, {
                 workerPath,
                 corePath,
+                cachePath: dataDirs.OCR_CACHE_DIR,
                 logger: (m: { status: string; progress: number }) => {
                     if (m.status === 'recognizing text') {
                         log.info(`Image OCR progress: ${Math.round(m.progress * 100)}%`);