diff --git a/papermerge/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/91-OCR b/papermerge/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/91-OCR
index e4f3c9f1c..9eb3c3e80 100644
--- a/papermerge/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/91-OCR
+++ b/papermerge/rootfs/etc/cont-init.d/91-OCR
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/with-contenv bashio
 
 # Allow OCR setting
-sed -i 's/bash/bashio/g' /etc/cont-init.d/98-multilangocr
-sed -i "2i\OCRLANG=$(bashio::config "ocrlang")" /etc/cont-init.d/98-multilangocr
+OCRLANG="$(bashio::config "ocrlang")"
+sed -i "2i\OCRLANG=$OCRLANG" /etc/cont-init.d/98-multilangocr