diff --git a/graphics/py-pytesseract/Makefile b/graphics/py-pytesseract/Makefile
index 969145cc2539..541f47401242 100644
--- a/graphics/py-pytesseract/Makefile
+++ b/graphics/py-pytesseract/Makefile
@@ -1,36 +1,39 @@
 PORTNAME=	pytesseract
 PORTVERSION=	0.3.9
+PORTREVISION=	1
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 CATEGORIES=	graphics python
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	mandree@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	wrapper for Google's Tesseract OCR engine
 
+PATCH_STRIP=	-p1
+
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 RUN_DEPENDS=	tesseract:graphics/tesseract \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pillow>0:graphics/py-pillow@${PY_FLAVOR}
 TEST_DEPENDS=	${RUN_DEPENDS} \
 		${PYNUMPY} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}tox>0:devel/py-tox@${PY_FLAVOR}
 		# if py-tox cannot detect py-filelock, be sure to have version 3.4.2_1 of the latter
 
 USES=		localbase python:3.7+
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	madmaze
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent distutils
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 do-test:
-		cd ${WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${TEST_ENV} tox -e ${PY_FLAVOR} --sitepackages
+		cd ${WRKSRC} && ${SETENV} ${TEST_ENV} tox-${PYTHON_VER} -e ${PY_FLAVOR} --sitepackages
 
 .include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
 
 .if ${PYTHON_REL} >= 30800
 TEST_DEPENDS+=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pandas>0:math/py-pandas@${PY_FLAVOR}
 .endif
 
 .include <bsd.port.post.mk>
diff --git a/graphics/py-pytesseract/files/patch-g06e7f807 b/graphics/py-pytesseract/files/patch-g06e7f807
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..71ba847a05ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/graphics/py-pytesseract/files/patch-g06e7f807
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+This is obtained from upstream and ADDITIONALLY
+changes the try: val = int(row[i]) in upstream int3l@github's version
+to int(float(row[i])).   -- Matthias Andree, mandree@FreeBSD.org
+
+From 06e7f8077467950d2f4e0f619fb193730c2d2079 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: int3l <int3l@users.noreply.github.com>
+Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:09:21 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix confidence conversion from str to int
+
+Account for negative values. Fixes #406
+---
+ pytesseract/pytesseract.py | 11 ++++++++---
+ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/pytesseract/pytesseract.py b/pytesseract/pytesseract.py
+index 984b106..e927e80 100644
+--- a/pytesseract/pytesseract.py
++++ b/pytesseract/pytesseract.py
+@@ -313,9 +313,14 @@ def file_to_dict(tsv, cell_delimiter, str_col_idx):
+             if len(row) <= i:
+                 continue
+ 
+-            val = row[i]
+-            if row[i].isdigit() and i != str_col_idx:
+-                val = int(row[i])
++            if i != str_col_idx:
++                try:
++                    val = int(float(row[i]))
++                except ValueError:
++                    val = row[i]
++            else:
++                val = row[i]
++
+             result[head].append(val)
+ 
+     return result