diff --git a/package/tesseract-ocr/Config.in b/package/tesseract-ocr/Config.in
index 4d9b78733e..79a27780b2 100644
--- a/package/tesseract-ocr/Config.in
+++ b/package/tesseract-ocr/Config.in
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-comment "tesseract-ocr needs a toolchain w/ threads, C++, gcc >= 7, dynamic library, wchar"
+comment "tesseract-ocr needs a toolchain w/ threads, C++, gcc >= 8, dynamic library, wchar"
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 || BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8 || BR2_STATIC_LIBS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR
 
 menuconfig BR2_PACKAGE_TESSERACT_OCR
 	bool "tesseract-ocr"
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_7 # C++17
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_8 # C++17 filesystem
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # fork()
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR