diff --git a/src/paperless/settings.py b/src/paperless/settings.py
index 57ce3a407..561943743 100644
--- a/src/paperless/settings.py
+++ b/src/paperless/settings.py
@@ -489,6 +489,10 @@ OCR_ROTATE_PAGES_THRESHOLD = float(
     os.getenv("PAPERLESS_OCR_ROTATE_PAGES_THRESHOLD", 12.0),
 )
 
+OCR_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS = os.environ.get(
+    'PAPERLESS_OCR_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS', Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS
+)
+
 OCR_USER_ARGS = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_OCR_USER_ARGS", "{}")
 
 # GNUPG needs a home directory for some reason
diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
index bf33194e9..4b1049566 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
@@ -8,9 +8,7 @@ from documents.parsers import make_thumbnail_from_pdf
 from documents.parsers import ParseError
 from PIL import Image
 
-Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS = os.environ.get(
-    'PAPERLESS_OCR_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS', Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS
-)
+Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS = settings.OCR_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS
 
 
 class NoTextFoundException(Exception):
diff --git a/src/paperless_text/parsers.py b/src/paperless_text/parsers.py
index 49270c259..2e002457e 100644
--- a/src/paperless_text/parsers.py
+++ b/src/paperless_text/parsers.py
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ from PIL import Image
 from PIL import ImageDraw
 from PIL import ImageFont
 
-Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS = os.environ.get(
-    'PAPERLESS_OCR_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS', Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS
-)
+Image.MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS = settings.OCR_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS
 
 
 class TextDocumentParser(DocumentParser):