diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/ocropus/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/ocropus/default.nix
index 240a975e611e..821b362b3654 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/ocropus/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/misc/ocropus/default.nix
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchhg, fetchurl, pythonPackages, curl }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, fetchurl, pythonPackages, curl }:
 
 let
   getmodel = name: sha256: {
     src = fetchurl {
-      url = "http://iupr1.cs.uni-kl.de/~tmb/ocropus-models/${name}";
+      url = "http://www.tmbdev.net/ocropy/${name}";
       inherit sha256;
     };
     inherit name;
@@ -12,58 +12,47 @@ let
   models = [
     (getmodel "en-default.pyrnn.gz"
       "1xyi3k3p81mfw0491gb1haisazfyi2i18f1wjs1m34ak39qfqjdp")
-    (getmodel "en-uw3-linerel-2.cmodel.gz"
-      "0zdw0db2znxxd4h7aa09506nkbxd1cfqacxzyzlx42bjn951wcpw")
-    (getmodel "en-mixed-3.ngraphs.gz"
-      "1fqw7pxmjwapirp9xv3b0gn9pk53q4740qn5dw4wxfxk9dpp9lr4")
-    (getmodel "en-space.model.gz"
-      "0w5hnjm6rz5iiw1p2yixj147ifq11s9jfzrxk4v4xxmcyn365096")
-    (getmodel "en-mixed.lineest.gz"
-      "0skrziksn3zb3g8588y7jd10pnl2pzrby0119ac0awapzzg9vkvw")
-    (getmodel "uw3unlv.pyrnn.gz"
-      "0g08q9cjxxx3mg1jn4654nalxr56y2jq1h33pwxrj5lrckr7grb9")
-    (getmodel "en-uw3unlv-perchar.cmodel.gz"
-      "1izvm0wkb2vh58hjp59fw97drv17zdzrw6mz3aanrg5ax6fnfadk")
-    (getmodel "gradient.lineest.gz"
-      "1bw9hj9byjxi31rjh2xiysnx8c72jz0npxa54xgjwsqg7ihl8jzw")
-    (getmodel "en-mixed-round1.lineest.gz"
-      "1fjkygyrg4ng7kx4iqa4yhgvmw1zq72p3q5p0hcb2xxhqc04vx7c")
-    (getmodel "frakant.pyrnn.gz"
-      "0i1k95f2a8qlc6m7qq11pmjfcimyrjsfjvv20nrs2ygp9pwskmxp")
     (getmodel "fraktur.pyrnn.gz"
       "1wlwvxn91ilgmlri1hj81arl3mbzxc24ycdnkf5icq4hdi4c6y8b")
   ];
+
+  version = "20150316";
 in
-pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage rec {
+pythonPackages.buildPythonPackage {
   name = "ocropus-${version}";
-  version = "20130905";
 
-  src = fetchhg {
-    url = "https://code.google.com/p/ocropus.ocropy";
-    rev = "a6e0fbd820ce";
-    sha256 = "1s0v0gd6psfjp6lghwl2dj49h18mgf2n2z8hqzw8430nzhglnlvr";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    sha256 = "0m5bm2ah3p29c13vp7hz7rm058qnlm840zd8xv20byijhlz0447g";
+    rev = "5ba07bb959d605ec15424dd2b8f3d7245820084e";
+    repo = "ocropy";
+    owner = "tmbdev";
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./display.patch ];
-
   propagatedBuildInputs = with pythonPackages; [ curl numpy scipy pillow
     matplotlib beautifulsoup4 pygtk lxml ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
   
   preConfigure = with stdenv.lib; ''
-    ${concatStrings (map (x: "ln -s ${x.src} models/${x.name};") models)}
+    ${concatStrings (map (x: "ln -s ${x.src} models/`basename ${x.name}`;")
+      models)}
 
-    sed -i 's|/usr/local|'$out'|' ocrolib/common.py
-    sed -i 's|/usr/local|'$out'|' ocrolib/default.py
-    ${pythonPackages.python}/bin/${pythonPackages.python.executable} setup.py download_models
+    substituteInPlace ocrolib/{common,default}.py --replace /usr/local $out
+  '';
+
+  checkPhase = ''
+    patchShebangs ./run-test
+    substituteInPlace ./run-test \
+      --replace 'ocropus-rpred' 'ocropus-rpred -Q $NIX_BUILD_CORES'
+    PATH=".:$PATH" ./run-test
   '';
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    inherit version;
     description = "Open source document analysis and OCR system";
     license = licenses.asl20;
-    homepage = https://code.google.com/p/ocropus/;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ iElectric viric ];
+    homepage = https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy/;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ iElectric nckx viric ];
     platforms = platforms.linux;
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/ocropus/display.patch b/pkgs/applications/misc/ocropus/display.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b4e63652b7b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/ocropus/display.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/issues/detail?id=365
-
-diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
-index c6ade25..a2ad6bf 100644
---- a/setup.py
-+++ b/setup.py
-@@ -8,7 +8,10 @@ assert sys.version_info[0]==2 and sys.version_info[1]>=7,\
- from distutils.core import setup, Extension, Command
- from distutils.command.install_data import install_data
- 
-+import matplotlib
-+matplotlib.use('Agg')
- from ocrolib import default
-+
- modeldir = "models/"
- modelfiles = default.installable
- modelprefix = "http://iupr1.cs.uni-kl.de/~tmb/ocropus-models/"