diff --git a/all_test.go b/all_test.go
index 6263edf..d8ce498 100644
--- a/all_test.go
+++ b/all_test.go
@@ -321,16 +321,6 @@ func TestClient_HTML(t *testing.T) {
 	})
 }
 
-func TestClient_DetectOrientationScript(t *testing.T) {
-	client := NewClient()
-	defer client.Close()
-	client.SetImage("./test/data/004-rotated-text.png")
-	deg, _, script_name, _, err := client.DetectOrientationScript()
-	Expect(t, err).ToBe(nil)
-	Expect(t, deg).ToBe(180)
-	Expect(t, script_name).ToBe("Latin")
-}
-
 func TestGetAvailableLangs(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Skip("TODO")
 	// langs, err := GetAvailableLanguages()
diff --git a/client.go b/client.go
index dd902be..8e8c27f 100644
--- a/client.go
+++ b/client.go
@@ -312,34 +312,6 @@ func (client *Client) init() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// Initialize tesseract::TessBaseAPI for OSD (Orientation and Script Detection)
-func (client *Client) initOsd() error {
-	var tessdataPrefix *C.char
-	if client.TessdataPrefix != "" {
-		tessdataPrefix = C.CString(client.TessdataPrefix)
-	}
-	defer C.free(unsafe.Pointer(tessdataPrefix))
-
-	res := C.Init(client.api, tessdataPrefix, C.CString("osd"), nil, nil)
-	if res != 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to initialize TessBaseAPI with code %d", res)
-	}
-
-	if err := client.setVariablesToInitializedAPI(); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	if client.pixImage == nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("PixImage is not set, use SetImage or SetImageFromBytes before DetectOrientationScript")
-	}
-
-	C.SetPixImage(client.api, client.pixImage)
-
-	client.shouldInit = true
-
-	return nil
-}
-
 // This method flag the current instance to be initialized again on the next call to a function that
 // requires a gosseract API initialized: when user change the config file or the languages
 // the instance needs to init a new gosseract api
@@ -347,7 +319,7 @@ func (client *Client) flagForInit() {
 	client.shouldInit = true
 }
 
-// This method sets all the specified variables to TessBaseAPI structure.
+// This method sets all the sspecified variables to TessBaseAPI structure.
 // Because `api->SetVariable` must be called after `api->Init()`,
 // gosseract.Client.SetVariable cannot call `api->SetVariable` directly.
 // See https://zdenop.github.io/tesseract-doc/classtesseract_1_1_tess_base_a_p_i.html#a2e09259c558c6d8e0f7e523cbaf5adf5
@@ -404,25 +376,6 @@ func (client *Client) HOCRText() (out string, err error) {
 	return
 }
 
-func (client *Client) DetectOrientationScript() (int, float32, string, float32, error) {
-	if err := client.initOsd(); err != nil {
-		return 0, 0, "", 0, err
-	}
-	var (
-		orient_deg  C.int
-		orient_conf C.float
-		script_name *C.char
-		script_conf C.float
-	)
-	defer C.free(unsafe.Pointer(script_name))
-	C.DetectOrientationScript(client.api, &orient_deg, &orient_conf, &script_name, &script_conf)
-	if script_name == nil {
-		return int(orient_deg), float32(orient_conf), "", float32(script_conf), fmt.Errorf("script name is null")
-	}
-
-	return int(orient_deg), float32(orient_conf), C.GoString(script_name), float32(script_conf), nil
-}
-
 // BoundingBox contains the position, confidence and UTF8 text of the recognized word
 type BoundingBox struct {
 	Box                                image.Rectangle
diff --git a/tessbridge.cpp b/tessbridge.cpp
index cef7f00..c37378b 100644
--- a/tessbridge.cpp
+++ b/tessbridge.cpp
@@ -105,11 +105,6 @@ char* HOCRText(TessBaseAPI a) {
     return api->GetHOCRText(0);
 }
 
-void DetectOrientationScript(TessBaseAPI a, int* orient_deg, float* orient_conf, const char** script_name, float* script_conf) {
-    tesseract::TessBaseAPI* api = (tesseract::TessBaseAPI*)a;
-    api->DetectOrientationScript(orient_deg, orient_conf, script_name, script_conf);
-}
-
 bounding_boxes* GetBoundingBoxesVerbose(TessBaseAPI a) {
     using namespace tesseract;
     tesseract::TessBaseAPI* api = (tesseract::TessBaseAPI*)a;
diff --git a/tessbridge.h b/tessbridge.h
index a06e6ce..161c08a 100644
--- a/tessbridge.h
+++ b/tessbridge.h
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ void SetPageSegMode(TessBaseAPI, int);
 int GetPageSegMode(TessBaseAPI);
 char* UTF8Text(TessBaseAPI);
 char* HOCRText(TessBaseAPI);
-void DetectOrientationScript(TessBaseAPI, int*, float*, const char**, float*);
 const char* Version(TessBaseAPI);
 const char* GetDataPath();
 
diff --git a/test/data/004-rotated-text.png b/test/data/004-rotated-text.png
deleted file mode 100644
index b3a4908..0000000
Binary files a/test/data/004-rotated-text.png and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/test/runtimes/alpine.Dockerfile b/test/runtimes/alpine.Dockerfile
index 013219b..39a4473 100644
--- a/test/runtimes/alpine.Dockerfile
+++ b/test/runtimes/alpine.Dockerfile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ RUN apk add \
   musl-dev \
   go \
   tesseract-ocr-dev
-RUN apk add tesseract-ocr-data-osd tesseract-ocr-data-eng
+RUN apk add tesseract-ocr-data-eng
 
 ENV GOPATH=/root/go