diff --git a/modules/text/src/ocr_tesseract.cpp b/modules/text/src/ocr_tesseract.cpp
index accf47761..eb1ec40e4 100644
--- a/modules/text/src/ocr_tesseract.cpp
+++ b/modules/text/src/ocr_tesseract.cpp
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ CV_WRAP String OCRTesseract::run(InputArray image, InputArray mask, int min_conf
     run(image_m, mask_m, output1, NULL, &component_texts, &component_confidences, component_level);
     for(unsigned int i = 0; i < component_texts.size(); i++)
     {
-        cout << "confidence: " << component_confidences[i] << " text:" << component_texts[i] << endl;
+        // cout << "confidence: " << component_confidences[i] << " text:" << component_texts[i] << endl;
 
         if(component_confidences[i] > min_confidence)
         {