diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 3d710f8d7..54fac82d9 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 [submodule "thirdparty/tesseract"]
 	path = thirdparty/tesseract
 	url = git@github.com:abhinavkgrd/tesseract.js.git
+	branch = worker-support 
 [submodule "ffmpeg-wasm"]
 	path = thirdparty/ffmpeg-wasm
 	url = https://github.com/abhinavkgrd/ffmpeg.wasm.git