diff --git a/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/update b/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/update
index 09c88c8e6b3..d4a83bd75f0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/update
+++ b/srcpkgs/tesseract-ocr/update
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 site=https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases
-pattern='tesseract/tree/\K[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-beta\.[0-9]+)?'
-ignore="*-beta.[0-9]"
+pattern='tesseract/tree/\K[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+((-beta\.[0-9]+)|(-rc[0-9]+))?'
+ignore="*-beta.[0-9] *-rc[0-9]"