--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ girara = dependency('girara-gtk3')
 glib = dependency('glib-2.0')
 cairo = dependency('cairo')
 mupdf = dependency('mupdf', required: false)
-mupdfthird = cc.find_library('mupdf-third')
 
 build_dependencies = [
   zathura,
@@ -32,17 +31,15 @@ build_dependencies = [
 if not mupdf.found()
   # normal build of mupdf
   mupdf = cc.find_library('mupdf')
-  build_dependencies += [mupdf, mupdfthird]
+  build_dependencies += [mupdf]
 else
   # build from Debian's libmupdf-dev
-  build_dependencies += [mupdf, mupdfthird]
+  build_dependencies += [mupdf]
 
   libjpeg = dependency('libjpeg')
   libjbig2dec = cc.find_library('jbig2dec')
   libopenjp2 = dependency('libopenjp2')
   gumbo = dependency('gumbo')
-  tesseract = dependency('tesseract')
-  leptonica = dependency('lept')
   mujs = dependency('mujs')
 
   build_dependencies += [
@@ -50,8 +47,6 @@ else
     libjbig2dec,
     libopenjp2,
     gumbo,
-    tesseract,
-    leptonica,
     mujs
   ]
 endif