diff --git a/office/gocr/gocr.SlackBuild b/office/gocr/gocr.SlackBuild
index 5e1cbedd16..e29da2f1e9 100644
--- a/office/gocr/gocr.SlackBuild
+++ b/office/gocr/gocr.SlackBuild
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 # Slackware Package Build Script for GOCR
 # Home Page http://jocr.sourceforge.net/index.html
 
-# Copyright (c) 2008-2010, Nishant Limbachia, Hoffman Estates, IL, USA (nishant _AT_ mnspace _DOT_ net)
+# Copyright (c) 2008-2011, Nishant Limbachia, Hoffman Estates, IL, USA
+# <nishant _AT_ mnspace _DOT_ net>
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -25,8 +26,8 @@
 # SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=gocr
-VERSION=0.48
-BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.49}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
 # Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ find . \
 CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
   ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
+  --bindir=/usr/bin \
   --exec-prefix=/usr \
   --sysconfdir=/etc \
   --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
@@ -86,20 +88,15 @@ CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 make
 make install DESTDIR=$PKG
 
-###
-mv $PKG/bin $PKG/usr
-
 mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cp -a \
   AUTHORS BUGS CREDITS INSTALL README* HISTORY TODO \
   doc/*.txt doc/*.html $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
 cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
-### strip binaries
 find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
   | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
 
-### compress man page
 gzip -9 $PKG/usr/man/man1/$PRGNAM.1
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
diff --git a/office/gocr/gocr.info b/office/gocr/gocr.info
index 5be684fa75..361a8482c7 100644
--- a/office/gocr/gocr.info
+++ b/office/gocr/gocr.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="gocr"
-VERSION="0.48"
+VERSION="0.49"
 HOMEPAGE="http://jocr.sourceforge.net/index.html"
-DOWNLOAD="http://www-e.uni-magdeburg.de/jschulen/ocr/gocr-0.48.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="9882ba9a93fcb18ab704a10da80c228c"
+DOWNLOAD="http://www-e.uni-magdeburg.de/jschulen/ocr/gocr-0.49.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="4e527bc4bdd97c2be15fdd818857507f"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 MAINTAINER="Nishant Limbachia"
 EMAIL="nishant@mnspace.net"
-APPROVED="Erik Hanson"
+APPROVED="rworkman"
diff --git a/office/gocr/slack-desc b/office/gocr/slack-desc
index cb602add90..9c6b840769 100644
--- a/office/gocr/slack-desc
+++ b/office/gocr/slack-desc
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
     |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
 gocr: gocr (open source character recognition)
-gocr: 
+gocr:
 gocr: GOCR is an optical character recognition program released under
 gocr: GNU GPL.  It reads images in many formats and outputs a text file
 gocr: and is capable of doing several other tasks.  Please refer README