diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py
index 8a06d7b00..41ea3c9b5 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py
@@ -14,12 +14,21 @@ def get_tesseract_langs():
 
 @register()
 def check_default_language_available(app_configs, **kwargs):
-    langs = get_tesseract_langs()
+    installed_langs = get_tesseract_langs()
 
-    if settings.OCR_LANGUAGE not in langs:
-        return [Error(
-            f"The default ocr language {settings.OCR_LANGUAGE} is "
-            f"not installed. Paperless cannot OCR your documents "
-            f"without it. Please fix PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE.")]
-    else:
-        return []
+    if not settings.OCR_LANGUAGE:
+        return [Warning(
+            "No OCR language has been specified with PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE. "
+            "This means that tesseract will fallback to english."
+        )]
+
+    specified_langs = settings.OCR_LANGUAGE.split("+")
+
+    for lang in specified_langs:
+        if lang not in installed_langs:
+            return [Error(
+                f"The selected ocr language {lang} is "
+                f"not installed. Paperless cannot OCR your documents "
+                f"without it. Please fix PAPERLESS_OCR_LANGUAGE.")]
+
+    return []