--- a/textproc/py-ocrmypdf/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-ocrmypdf/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PORTNAME=      ocrmypdf
-DISTVERSION=   15.4.4
+DISTVERSION=   16.0.4
 CATEGORIES=    textproc python
 MASTER_SITES=  PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX= ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
@@ -12,16 +12,16 @@ LICENSE=    MPL20
 LICENSE_FILE=  ${WRKSRC}/LICENSE

 BUILD_DEPENDS= ${PY_SETUPTOOLS} \
-               ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm>=0:devel/py-setuptools_scm@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+               ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools_scm7>=0:devel/py-setuptools_scm7@${PY_FLAVOR} \
                ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=   ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}deprecation>=2.1.0:devel/py-deprecation@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-               ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}img2pdf>=0.4.4:graphics/py-img2pdf@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+               ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}img2pdf>=0.5:graphics/py-img2pdf@${PY_FLAVOR} \
                ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}packaging>=20:devel/py-packaging@${PY_FLAVOR} \
                ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pillow>=10.0.1:graphics/py-pillow@${PY_FLAVOR} \
                ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}reportlab>=3.6.8:print/py-reportlab@${PY_FLAVOR} \
                ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}rich>=13:textproc/py-rich@${PY_FLAVOR} \
                ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pdfminer.six>=20220319:textproc/py-pdfminer.six@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-               ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pikepdf>=8.7.1:textproc/py-pikepdf@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+               ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pikepdf>=8.10.1:textproc/py-pikepdf@${PY_FLAVOR} \
                ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pluggy>=0.13.0:devel/py-pluggy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
                tesseract:graphics/tesseract
 TEST_DEPENDS=  ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hypothesis>=6.36.0:devel/py-hypothesis@${PY_FLAVOR} \
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ PYTEST_IGNORED_TESTS= test_chmod \
                        test_malformed_docinfo # leads to an internal pytest error

 SHEBANG_FILES= src/ocrmypdf/__main__.py \
-               src/ocrmypdf/hocrtransform.py \
                src/ocrmypdf/pdfinfo/__init__.py

 TEST_ARGS=     -n ${MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER}
diff --git a/textproc/py-ocrmypdf/distinfo b/textproc/py-ocrmypdf/distinfo
index 32f10c6ebfa3..3304b587d5bd 100644
--- a/textproc/py-ocrmypdf/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-ocrmypdf/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1703856711
-SHA256 (ocrmypdf-15.4.4.tar.gz) = 4696c81cc5b5d64f31ccfe685d10baeb69b42bb0974acddf292d8cf9d97605c3
-SIZE (ocrmypdf-15.4.4.tar.gz) = 6682828
+TIMESTAMP = 1705201678
+SHA256 (ocrmypdf-16.0.4.tar.gz) = beddf3156af9057e828004c5054dcc048a22dff4a02628558f3801d9b33fbe54
+SIZE (ocrmypdf-16.0.4.tar.gz) = 6718994
diff --git a/textproc/py-ocrmypdf/files/patch-pyproject.toml b/textproc/py-ocrmypdf/files/patch-pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2bec0c44995f..000000000000
--- a/textproc/py-ocrmypdf/files/patch-pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-Allow build with older versions of devel/py-setuptools_scm .
-
---- pyproject.toml.orig        2023-10-04 08:20:36 UTC
-+++ pyproject.toml
-@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
- # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 James R. Barlow
- # SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
- [build-system]
--requires = ["setuptools >= 61", "setuptools_scm[toml] >= 7.0.5", "wheel"]
-+requires = ["setuptools >= 61", "setuptools_scm[toml]", "wheel"]
- build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
-
- [project]