diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ow/owocr/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ow/owocr/package.nix
index b0900bee6478..8071dccc5e44 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ow/owocr/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ow/owocr/package.nix
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ python3Packages.buildPythonApplication {
     pyjson5 # Google Lens
     google-cloud-vision
     manga-ocr
-    rapidocr-onnxruntime
+    rapidocr
     requests # winRT OCR
   ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling-jobkit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling-jobkit/default.nix
index 423c92b124e4..7cfe20ee9478 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling-jobkit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling-jobkit/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
   # optional dependencies
   tesserocr,
-  rapidocr-onnxruntime,
+  rapidocr,
   onnxruntime,
   ray,
 
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   optional-dependencies = {
     tesserocr = [ tesserocr ];
     rapidocr = [
-      rapidocr-onnxruntime
+      rapidocr
       onnxruntime
     ];
     ray = [ ray ];
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling-serve/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling-serve/default.nix
index b8398621e836..6d1074cfff11 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling-serve/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling-serve/default.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   websockets,
   tesserocr,
   typer,
-  rapidocr-onnxruntime,
+  rapidocr,
   onnxruntime,
   torch,
   torchvision,
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
       tesserocr
     ];
     rapidocr = [
-      rapidocr-onnxruntime
+      rapidocr
       onnxruntime
     ];
     cpu = [
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling/default.nix
index aa0d05259557..783bb524f318 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/docling/default.nix
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
   pypdfium2,
   python-docx,
   python-pptx,
-  rapidocr-onnxruntime,
+  rapidocr,
   requests,
   rtree,
   scipy,
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pypdfium2
     python-docx
     python-pptx
-    rapidocr-onnxruntime
+    rapidocr
     requests
     rtree
     scipy
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     ];
     rapidocr = [
       onnxruntime
-      rapidocr-onnxruntime
+      rapidocr
     ];
     tesserocr = [
       tesserocr
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr-onnxruntime/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr-onnxruntime/default.nix
index 97295a4216b2..6e369d6dcc97 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr-onnxruntime/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr-onnxruntime/default.nix
@@ -7,10 +7,8 @@
   replaceVars,
 
   setuptools,
-  colorlog,
   pyclipper,
   opencv-python,
-  omegaconf,
   numpy,
   six,
   shapely,
@@ -23,13 +21,13 @@
   requests,
 }:
 let
-  version = "3.3.1";
+  version = "1.4.4";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "RapidAI";
     repo = "RapidOCR";
     tag = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-EgVBMQX+E8ejUd/6FUQ+uJoWjrQSVznpPcc2gA2wAOE=";
+    hash = "sha256-x0VELDKOffxbV3v0aDFJFuDC4YfsGM548XWgINmRc3M=";
   };
 
   models =
@@ -64,51 +62,62 @@ buildPythonPackage {
   ];
 
   postPatch = ''
-    mkdir -p rapidocr/models
+    mv setup_onnxruntime.py setup.py
 
-    ln -s ${models}/* rapidocr/models
+    ln -s ${models}/* rapidocr_onnxruntime/models
 
-    # Magic patch from upstream - what does this even do??
-    echo "from .rapidocr.main import RapidOCR, VisRes" > __init__.py
+    echo "from .rapidocr_onnxruntime.main import RapidOCR, VisRes" > __init__.py
   '';
 
-  # Upstream expects the source files to be under rapidocr/rapidocr
-  # instead of rapidocr for the wheel to build correctly.
+  # Upstream expects the source files to be under rapidocr_onnxruntime/rapidocr_onnxruntime
+  # instead of rapidocr_onnxruntime for the wheel to build correctly.
   preBuild = ''
-    mkdir rapidocr_t
-    mv rapidocr rapidocr_t
-    mv rapidocr_t rapidocr
+    mkdir rapidocr_onnxruntime_t
+    mv rapidocr_onnxruntime rapidocr_onnxruntime_t
+    mv rapidocr_onnxruntime_t rapidocr_onnxruntime
   '';
 
   # Revert the above hack
   postBuild = ''
-    mv rapidocr rapidocr_t
-    mv rapidocr_t/* .
+    mv rapidocr_onnxruntime rapidocr_onnxruntime_t
+    mv rapidocr_onnxruntime_t/* .
   '';
 
   build-system = [ setuptools ];
 
   dependencies = [
-    colorlog
-    numpy
-    omegaconf
-    onnxruntime
-    opencv-python
-    pillow
     pyclipper
-    pyyaml
-    requests
-    shapely
+    opencv-python
+    numpy
     six
+    shapely
+    pyyaml
+    pillow
+    onnxruntime
     tqdm
   ];
 
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "rapidocr" ];
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "rapidocr_onnxruntime" ];
 
-  # As of version 2.1.0, 61 out of 70 tests require internet access.
-  # It's just not plausible to manually pick out ones that actually work
-  # in a hermetic build environment anymore :(
-  doCheck = false;
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+    requests
+  ];
+
+  # These are tests for different backends.
+  disabledTestPaths = [
+    "tests/test_vino.py"
+    "tests/test_paddle.py"
+  ];
+
+  disabledTests = [
+    # Needs Internet access
+    "test_long_img"
+  ];
+
+  # rapidocr-onnxruntime has been renamed to rapidocr by upstream since 2.0.0. However, some packages like open-webui still requires rapidocr-onnxruntime 1.4.4. Therefore we set no auto update here.
+  # nixpkgs-update: no auto update
+  passthru.skipBulkUpdate = true;
 
   meta = {
     # This seems to be related to https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/issues/10038
@@ -117,8 +126,8 @@ buildPythonPackage {
     changelog = "https://github.com/RapidAI/RapidOCR/releases/tag/${src.tag}";
     description = "Cross platform OCR Library based on OnnxRuntime";
     homepage = "https://github.com/RapidAI/RapidOCR";
-    license = with lib.licenses; [ asl20 ];
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ pluiedev ];
-    mainProgram = "rapidocr";
+    license = lib.licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ wrvsrx ];
+    mainProgram = "rapidocr_onnxruntime";
   };
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr-onnxruntime/setup-py-override-version-checking.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr-onnxruntime/setup-py-override-version-checking.patch
index f940c1c29dc1..3800ded38c6a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr-onnxruntime/setup-py-override-version-checking.patch
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr-onnxruntime/setup-py-override-version-checking.patch
@@ -1,25 +1,22 @@
-diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
-index 16938a4..5167972 100644
---- a/setup.py
-+++ b/setup.py
+diff --git i/setup_onnxruntime.py w/setup_onnxruntime.py
+index e9572e9..f5f3b32 100644
+--- i/setup_onnxruntime.py
++++ w/setup_onnxruntime.py
 @@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from pathlib import Path
  from typing import List, Union
- 
+
  import setuptools
 -from get_pypi_latest_version import GetPyPiLatestVersion
- 
- 
+
+
  def read_txt(txt_path: Union[Path, str]) -> List[str]:
-@@ -25,20 +24,7 @@ def get_readme():
- 
- 
- MODULE_NAME = "rapidocr"
+@@ -25,17 +24,7 @@ def get_readme():
+
+
+ MODULE_NAME = "rapidocr_onnxruntime"
 -
 -obtainer = GetPyPiLatestVersion()
--try:
--    latest_version = obtainer(MODULE_NAME)
--except Exception as e:
--    latest_version = "0.0.0"
+-latest_version = obtainer(MODULE_NAME)
 -VERSION_NUM = obtainer.version_add_one(latest_version, add_patch=True)
 -
 -if len(sys.argv) > 2:
@@ -29,6 +26,6 @@ index 16938a4..5167972 100644
 -        VERSION_NUM = matched_versions
 -sys.argv = sys.argv[:2]
 +VERSION_NUM = "@version@"
- 
+
  project_urls = {
      "Documentation": "https://rapidai.github.io/RapidOCRDocs",
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..85bc9dc958a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+{
+  lib,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+
+  fetchzip,
+  replaceVars,
+
+  setuptools,
+  colorlog,
+  pyclipper,
+  opencv-python,
+  omegaconf,
+  numpy,
+  six,
+  shapely,
+  pyyaml,
+  pillow,
+  onnxruntime,
+  tqdm,
+
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  requests,
+}:
+let
+  version = "3.3.1";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "RapidAI";
+    repo = "RapidOCR";
+    tag = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-EgVBMQX+E8ejUd/6FUQ+uJoWjrQSVznpPcc2gA2wAOE=";
+  };
+
+  models =
+    fetchzip {
+      url = "https://github.com/RapidAI/RapidOCR/releases/download/v1.1.0/required_for_whl_v1.3.0.zip";
+      hash = "sha256-j/0nzyvu/HfNTt5EZ+2Phe5dkyPOdQw/OZTz0yS63aA=";
+      stripRoot = false;
+    }
+    + "/required_for_whl_v1.3.0/resources/models";
+in
+buildPythonPackage {
+  pname = "rapidocr";
+  inherit version src;
+  pyproject = true;
+
+  sourceRoot = "${src.name}/python";
+
+  # HACK:
+  # Upstream uses a very unconventional structure to organize the packages, and we have to coax the
+  # existing infrastructure to work with it.
+  # See https://github.com/RapidAI/RapidOCR/blob/02829ef986bc2a5c4f33e9c45c9267bcf2d07a1d/.github/workflows/gen_whl_to_pypi_rapidocr_ort.yml#L80-L92
+  # for the "intended" way of building this package.
+
+  # The setup.py supplied by upstream tries to determine the current version by
+  # fetching the latest version of the package from PyPI, and then bumping the version number.
+  # This is not allowed in the Nix build environment as we do not have internet access,
+  # hence we patch that out and get the version from the build environment directly.
+  patches = [
+    (replaceVars ./setup-py-override-version-checking.patch {
+      inherit version;
+    })
+  ];
+
+  postPatch = ''
+    mkdir -p rapidocr/models
+
+    ln -s ${models}/* rapidocr/models
+
+    echo "from .rapidocr.main import RapidOCR, VisRes" > __init__.py
+  '';
+
+  # Upstream expects the source files to be under rapidocr/rapidocr
+  # instead of rapidocr for the wheel to build correctly.
+  preBuild = ''
+    mkdir rapidocr_t
+    mv rapidocr rapidocr_t
+    mv rapidocr_t rapidocr
+  '';
+
+  # Revert the above hack
+  postBuild = ''
+    mv rapidocr rapidocr_t
+    mv rapidocr_t/* .
+  '';
+
+  build-system = [ setuptools ];
+
+  dependencies = [
+    colorlog
+    numpy
+    omegaconf
+    onnxruntime
+    opencv-python
+    pillow
+    pyclipper
+    pyyaml
+    requests
+    shapely
+    six
+    tqdm
+  ];
+
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "rapidocr" ];
+
+  # As of version 2.1.0, 61 out of 70 tests require internet access.
+  # It's just not plausible to manually pick out ones that actually work
+  # in a hermetic build environment anymore :(
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = {
+    # This seems to be related to https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime/issues/10038
+    # Also some related issue: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/319053#issuecomment-2167713362
+    badPlatforms = [ "aarch64-linux" ];
+    changelog = "https://github.com/RapidAI/RapidOCR/releases/tag/${src.tag}";
+    description = "Cross platform OCR Library based on OnnxRuntime";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/RapidAI/RapidOCR";
+    license = with lib.licenses; [ asl20 ];
+    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ pluiedev ];
+    mainProgram = "rapidocr";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr/setup-py-override-version-checking.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr/setup-py-override-version-checking.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f940c1c29dc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/rapidocr/setup-py-override-version-checking.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
+index 16938a4..5167972 100644
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from pathlib import Path
+ from typing import List, Union
+ 
+ import setuptools
+-from get_pypi_latest_version import GetPyPiLatestVersion
+ 
+ 
+ def read_txt(txt_path: Union[Path, str]) -> List[str]:
+@@ -25,20 +24,7 @@ def get_readme():
+ 
+ 
+ MODULE_NAME = "rapidocr"
+-
+-obtainer = GetPyPiLatestVersion()
+-try:
+-    latest_version = obtainer(MODULE_NAME)
+-except Exception as e:
+-    latest_version = "0.0.0"
+-VERSION_NUM = obtainer.version_add_one(latest_version, add_patch=True)
+-
+-if len(sys.argv) > 2:
+-    match_str = " ".join(sys.argv[2:])
+-    matched_versions = obtainer.extract_version(match_str)
+-    if matched_versions:
+-        VERSION_NUM = matched_versions
+-sys.argv = sys.argv[:2]
++VERSION_NUM = "@version@"
+ 
+ project_urls = {
+     "Documentation": "https://rapidai.github.io/RapidOCRDocs",
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 23cf263f1d75..dd9d3daaa483 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -15589,6 +15589,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   rapidgzip = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rapidgzip { inherit (pkgs) nasm; };
 
+  rapidocr = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rapidocr { };
+
   rapidocr-onnxruntime = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rapidocr-onnxruntime { };
 
   rapt-ble = callPackage ../development/python-modules/rapt-ble { };