diff --git a/graphics/py-pytesseract/Makefile b/graphics/py-pytesseract/Makefile
index 537038b60783..969145cc2539 100644
--- a/graphics/py-pytesseract/Makefile
+++ b/graphics/py-pytesseract/Makefile
@@ -1,35 +1,36 @@
 PORTNAME=	pytesseract
-PORTVERSION=	0.3.8
+PORTVERSION=	0.3.9
 DISTVERSIONPREFIX=	v
 CATEGORIES=	graphics python
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	mandree@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	wrapper for Google's Tesseract OCR engine
 
 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:3.4+
+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
 
 .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/distinfo b/graphics/py-pytesseract/distinfo
index 37c7cb61cafe..3995d7d1dcd4 100644
--- a/graphics/py-pytesseract/distinfo
+++ b/graphics/py-pytesseract/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1624690353
-SHA256 (madmaze-pytesseract-v0.3.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 6b9b35a36ff5a82ab292b14882062931333687525a383d3fff8133e2e78fd73d
-SIZE (madmaze-pytesseract-v0.3.8_GH0.tar.gz) = 964344
+TIMESTAMP = 1643230252
+SHA256 (madmaze-pytesseract-v0.3.9_GH0.tar.gz) = 3dddea670d0338f765b0693eecf5ba88fb268bfe26e0b76bade8b615b1802672
+SIZE (madmaze-pytesseract-v0.3.9_GH0.tar.gz) = 964493