diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/opencv/opencv_3.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/opencv/opencv_3.1.bb
index 2851233c01..667623e71a 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/opencv/opencv_3.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/opencv/opencv_3.1.bb
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[python2] = "-DPYTHON2_NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIRS:PATH=${STAGING_LIBDIR}/${
 PACKAGECONFIG[python3] = "-DPYTHON3_NUMPY_INCLUDE_DIRS:PATH=${STAGING_LIBDIR}/${PYTHON_DIR}/site-packages/numpy/core/include,,python3-numpy,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[samples] = "-DBUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -DINSTALL_PYTHON_EXAMPLES=ON,-DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF,,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[tbb] = "-DWITH_TBB=ON,-DWITH_TBB=OFF,tbb,"
+PACKAGECONFIG[text] = "-DBUILD_opencv_text=ON,-DBUILD_opencv_text=OFF,tesseract,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[tiff] = "-DWITH_TIFF=ON,-DWITH_TIFF=OFF,tiff,"
 PACKAGECONFIG[v4l] = "-DWITH_V4L=ON,-DWITH_V4L=OFF,v4l-utils,"