diff --git a/docker-compose.example.env b/docker-compose.example.env
index 4271bce6e..e9e8ecb06 100644
--- a/docker-compose.example.env
+++ b/docker-compose.example.env
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # Additional languages to install for text recognition, separated by a
 # whitespace. Note that this is
 # different from PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE (default=eng), which defines the
-# default language used when guessing the language from the OCR output.
+# language used for OCR.
 # The container installs English, German, Italian, Spanish and French by
 # default.
 # See https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tesseract-ocr-&searchon=names&suite=buster
diff --git a/docker/hub/docker-compose.env b/docker/hub/docker-compose.env
index 4271bce6e..e9e8ecb06 100644
--- a/docker/hub/docker-compose.env
+++ b/docker/hub/docker-compose.env
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # Additional languages to install for text recognition, separated by a
 # whitespace. Note that this is
 # different from PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE (default=eng), which defines the
-# default language used when guessing the language from the OCR output.
+# language used for OCR.
 # The container installs English, German, Italian, Spanish and French by
 # default.
 # See https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tesseract-ocr-&searchon=names&suite=buster