diff --git a/kernel/util/tesseract.go b/kernel/util/tesseract.go
index 8f9ea5df8..b3b437936 100644
--- a/kernel/util/tesseract.go
+++ b/kernel/util/tesseract.go
@@ -116,7 +116,15 @@ func initTesseract() {
 		logging.LogWarnf("no eng tesseract lang found")
 		return
 	}
-	if !gulu.Str.Contains("chi_*", langs) {
+
+	foundChi := false
+	for _, lang := range langs {
+		if strings.Contains(lang, "chi") {
+			foundChi = true
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	if !foundChi {
 		logging.LogWarnf("no chi_* tesseract lang found")
 		return
 	}