diff --git a/package/tesseract-ocr/tesseract-ocr.mk b/package/tesseract-ocr/tesseract-ocr.mk
index a7498931fb..5e9da0c648 100644
--- a/package/tesseract-ocr/tesseract-ocr.mk
+++ b/package/tesseract-ocr/tesseract-ocr.mk
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_TESSERACT_OCR_LANG_FRA),y)
 TESSERACT_OCR_DATA_FILES += fra.traineddata
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_TESSERACT_OCR_LANG_DEU),y)
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_TESSERACT_OCR_LANG_GER),y)
 TESSERACT_OCR_DATA_FILES += deu.traineddata
 endif