diff --git a/post.php b/post.php
index bf723e01..383154fb 100644
--- a/post.php
+++ b/post.php
@@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ if (isset($_POST['delete'])) {
 			$file['thumbheight'] = $size[1];
 		}
 
-		if ($config['tesseract_ocr']) { // Let's OCR it!
+		if ($config['tesseract_ocr'] && $file['thumb'] != 'file') { // Let's OCR it!
 			$fname = $file['tmp_name'];
 
 			if ($file['height'] > 500 || $file['width'] > 500) {