diff --git a/src/core/operations/OpticalCharacterRecognition.mjs b/src/core/operations/OpticalCharacterRecognition.mjs
index 6262df7b4..dfcff9654 100644
--- a/src/core/operations/OpticalCharacterRecognition.mjs
+++ b/src/core/operations/OpticalCharacterRecognition.mjs
@@ -12,9 +12,10 @@ import { isImage } from "../lib/FileType.mjs";
 import { toBase64 } from "../lib/Base64.mjs";
 import { isWorkerEnvironment } from "../Utils.mjs";
 
-import process from "process";
 import { createWorker } from "tesseract.js";
 
+const OEM_MODES = ["Tesseract only", "LSTM only", "Tesseract/LSTM Combined"];
+
 /**
  * Optical Character Recognition operation
  */
@@ -37,6 +38,12 @@ class OpticalCharacterRecognition extends Operation {
                 name: "Show confidence",
                 type: "boolean",
                 value: true
+            },
+            {
+                name: "OCR Engine Mode",
+                type: "option",
+                value: OEM_MODES,
+                defaultIndex: 1
             }
         ];
     }
@@ -47,7 +54,7 @@ class OpticalCharacterRecognition extends Operation {
      * @returns {string}
      */
     async run(input, args) {
-        const [showConfidence] = args;
+        const [showConfidence, oemChoice] = args;
 
         if (!isWorkerEnvironment()) throw new OperationError("This operation only works in a browser");
 
@@ -56,12 +63,13 @@ class OpticalCharacterRecognition extends Operation {
             throw new OperationError("Unsupported file type (supported: jpg,png,pbm,bmp) or no file provided");
         }
 
-        const assetDir = isWorkerEnvironment() ? `${self.docURL}/assets/` : `${process.cwd()}/src/core/vendor/`;
+        const assetDir = `${self.docURL}/assets/`;
+        const oem = OEM_MODES.indexOf(oemChoice);
 
         try {
             self.sendStatusMessage("Spinning up Tesseract worker...");
             const image = `data:${type};base64,${toBase64(input)}`;
-            const worker = createWorker({
+            const worker = await createWorker("eng", oem, {
                 workerPath: `${assetDir}tesseract/worker.min.js`,
                 langPath: `${assetDir}tesseract/lang-data`,
                 corePath: `${assetDir}tesseract/tesseract-core.wasm.js`,
@@ -71,11 +79,6 @@ class OpticalCharacterRecognition extends Operation {
                     }
                 }
             });
-            await worker.load();
-            self.sendStatusMessage(`Loading English language pack...`);
-            await worker.loadLanguage("eng");
-            self.sendStatusMessage("Intialising Tesseract API...");
-            await worker.initialize("eng");
             self.sendStatusMessage("Finding text...");
             const result = await worker.recognize(image);
 
diff --git a/tests/browser/02_ops.js b/tests/browser/02_ops.js
index 37f75f584..70cfd3ba1 100644
--- a/tests/browser/02_ops.js
+++ b/tests/browser/02_ops.js
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ module.exports = {
         // testOp(browser, "OR", "test input", "test_output");
         // testOp(browser, "Object Identifier to Hex", "test input", "test_output");
         testOpHtml(browser, "Offset checker", "test input\n\nbest input", ".hl5", "est input");
-    // testOp(browser, "Optical Character Recognition", "test input", "test_output");
+        testOpFile(browser, "Optical Character Recognition", "files/testocr.png", false, /This is a lot of 12 point text to test the/, [], 10000);
         // testOp(browser, "PEM to Hex", "test input", "test_output");
     // testOp(browser, "PGP Decrypt", "test input", "test_output");
     // testOp(browser, "PGP Decrypt and Verify", "test input", "test_output");
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ module.exports = {
  * @param {Browser} browser - Nightwatch client
  * @param {string|Array<string>} opName - name of operation to be tested, array for multiple ops
  * @param {string} input - input text for test
- * @param {Array<string>|Array<Array<string>>} args - arguments, nested if multiple ops
+ * @param {Array<string>|Array<Array<string>>} [args=[]] - arguments, nested if multiple ops
  */
 function bakeOp(browser, opName, input, args=[]) {
     browser.perform(function() {
@@ -425,8 +425,8 @@ function bakeOp(browser, opName, input, args=[]) {
  * @param {Browser} browser - Nightwatch client
  * @param {string|Array<string>} opName - name of operation to be tested, array for multiple ops
  * @param {string} input - input text
- * @param {string} output - expected output
- * @param {Array<string>|Array<Array<string>>} args - arguments, nested if multiple ops
+ * @param {string|RegExp} output - expected output
+ * @param {Array<string>|Array<Array<string>>} [args=[]] - arguments, nested if multiple ops
  */
 function testOp(browser, opName, input, output, args=[]) {
     bakeOp(browser, opName, input, args);
@@ -440,8 +440,8 @@ function testOp(browser, opName, input, output, args=[]) {
  * @param {string|Array<string>} opName - name of operation to be tested array for multiple ops
  * @param {string} input - input text
  * @param {string} cssSelector - CSS selector for HTML output
- * @param {string} output - expected output
- * @param {Array<string>|Array<Array<string>>} args - arguments, nested if multiple ops
+ * @param {string|RegExp} output - expected output
+ * @param {Array<string>|Array<Array<string>>} [args=[]] - arguments, nested if multiple ops
  */
 function testOpHtml(browser, opName, input, cssSelector, output, args=[]) {
     bakeOp(browser, opName, input, args);
@@ -459,9 +459,9 @@ function testOpHtml(browser, opName, input, cssSelector, output, args=[]) {
  * @param {Browser} browser - Nightwatch client
  * @param {string|Array<string>} opName - name of operation to be tested array for multiple ops
  * @param {string} filename - filename of image file from samples directory
- * @param {Array<string>|Array<Array<string>>} args - arguments, nested if multiple ops
+ * @param {Array<string>|Array<Array<string>>} [args=[]] - arguments, nested if multiple ops
  */
-function testOpImage(browser, opName, filename, args) {
+function testOpImage(browser, opName, filename, args=[]) {
     browser.perform(function() {
         console.log(`Current test: ${opName}`);
     });
@@ -481,11 +481,12 @@ function testOpImage(browser, opName, filename, args) {
  * @param {Browser} browser - Nightwatch client
  * @param {string|Array<string>} opName - name of operation to be tested array for multiple ops
  * @param {string} filename - filename of file from samples directory
- * @param {string} cssSelector - CSS selector for HTML output
- * @param {string} output - expected output
- * @param {Array<string>|Array<Array<string>>} args - arguments, nested if multiple ops
+ * @param {string|boolean} cssSelector - CSS selector for HTML output or false for normal text output
+ * @param {string|RegExp} output - expected output
+ * @param {Array<string>|Array<Array<string>>} [args=[]] - arguments, nested if multiple ops
+ * @param {number} [waitWindow=1000] - The number of milliseconds to wait for the output to be correct
  */
-function testOpFile(browser, opName, filename, cssSelector, output, args) {
+function testOpFile(browser, opName, filename, cssSelector, output, args=[], waitWindow=1000) {
     browser.perform(function() {
         console.log(`Current test: ${opName}`);
     });
@@ -494,9 +495,14 @@ function testOpFile(browser, opName, filename, cssSelector, output, args) {
     browser.pause(100).waitForElementVisible("#stale-indicator", 5000);
     utils.bake(browser);
 
-    if (typeof output === "string") {
+    if (!cssSelector) {
+        // Text output
+        utils.expectOutput(browser, output, true, waitWindow);
+    } else if (typeof output === "string") {
+        // HTML output - string match
         browser.expect.element("#output-html " + cssSelector).text.that.equals(output);
     } else if (output instanceof RegExp) {
+        // HTML output - RegEx match
         browser.expect.element("#output-html " + cssSelector).text.that.matches(output);
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/browser/browserUtils.js b/tests/browser/browserUtils.js
index dc0774af9..7711c004b 100644
--- a/tests/browser/browserUtils.js
+++ b/tests/browser/browserUtils.js
@@ -180,15 +180,16 @@ function loadRecipe(browser, opName, input, args) {
  * @param {Browser} browser - Nightwatch client
  * @param {string|RegExp} expected - The expected output value
  * @param {boolean} [waitNotNull=false] - Wait for the output to not be empty before testing the value
+ * @param {number} [waitWindow=1000] - The number of milliseconds to wait for the output to be correct
  */
-function expectOutput(browser, expected, waitNotNull=false) {
+function expectOutput(browser, expected, waitNotNull=false, waitWindow=1000) {
     if (waitNotNull && expected !== "") {
         browser.waitUntil(async function() {
             const output = await this.execute(function() {
                 return window.app.manager.output.outputEditorView.state.doc.toString();
             });
             return output.length;
-        }, 1000);
+        }, waitWindow);
     }
 
     browser.execute(expected => {
diff --git a/tests/samples/files/testocr.png b/tests/samples/files/testocr.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ce8d0e78b
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