diff --git a/graphics/py-pyocr/Makefile b/graphics/py-pyocr/Makefile
index 002a0aa53b0c..6f952bb19206 100644
--- a/graphics/py-pyocr/Makefile
+++ b/graphics/py-pyocr/Makefile
@@ -1,22 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	pyocr
-DISTVERSION=	0.8.3
+DISTVERSION=	0.8.4
 CATEGORIES=	graphics python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Python wrapper for OCR engines (Tesseract, Cuneiform, etc)
 WWW=		https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/OpenPaperwork/pyocr
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm>0:devel/py-setuptools_scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm_git_archive>0:devel/py-setuptools_scm_git_archive@${PY_FLAVOR}
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm_git_archive>0:devel/py-setuptools_scm_git_archive@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PY_PILLOW}
 
 USES=		gmake python
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils autoplist
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+TEST_ENV=	${MAKE_ENV} PYTHONPATH=${STAGEDIR}${PYTHONPREFIX_SITELIBDIR}
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/graphics/py-pyocr/distinfo b/graphics/py-pyocr/distinfo
index 471db16ff828..b812a756a435 100644
--- a/graphics/py-pyocr/distinfo
+++ b/graphics/py-pyocr/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1659082221
-SHA256 (pyocr-0.8.3.tar.gz) = 8e315cbc1ec83709905c9bb7ac907c2f86725d32be75baa0ef4bcbf302daca8c
-SIZE (pyocr-0.8.3.tar.gz) = 67625
+TIMESTAMP = 1694938031
+SHA256 (pyocr-0.8.4.tar.gz) = 1a3e9d7f8ad8dd0780f4145529d3076501a60dd71d8d6366339d726deed4df43
+SIZE (pyocr-0.8.4.tar.gz) = 71758