diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 325d61452b..1993d99135 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ RUN wget https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/archive/refs/tags/7.1.0-57.t
     && rm -rf ImageMagick* \
     && rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
 
+# Install "best" training data for Tesseract
+RUN echo "📚 Installing Tesseract Best (training data)!" && \
+    cd /usr/share/tessdata/ && \
+    wget https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata_best/blob/main/eng.traineddata?raw=true -O eng_best.traineddata
+
 ARG VIPS_VERSION=8.11.3
 
 RUN set -x -o pipefail \
diff --git a/app/services/iiif_print/tenant_config.rb b/app/services/iiif_print/tenant_config.rb
index 14ef3642bc..a82bc77be8 100644
--- a/app/services/iiif_print/tenant_config.rb
+++ b/app/services/iiif_print/tenant_config.rb
@@ -100,6 +100,11 @@ module PdfSplitter
       mattr_accessor :iiif_print_splitter
       self.iiif_print_splitter = ::IiifPrint::SplitPdfs::PagesToJpgsSplitter
 
+      ##
+      def self.never_split_pdfs?
+        !TenantConfig.use_iiif_print?
+      end
+
       ##
       # @api public
       def self.call(*args)
@@ -147,6 +152,12 @@ def service
     # In Hyrax::WorkShowPresenter we're only looking at the underlying file_sets.  But IiifPrint
     # needs to look at multiple places.
     module WorkShowPresenterDecorator
+      ##
+      # @return [Boolean] Identifies whether IiifPrint PDF splitting is active for this work's tenant
+      def split_pdfs?
+        TenantConfig.use_iiif_print?
+      end
+  
       ##
       # @return [Array<Symbol>] predicate methods (e.g. ending in "?") that reflect the types
       #         of files we want to consider for showing in the IIIF Viewer.
@@ -167,6 +178,7 @@ def iiif_media?(presenter: representative_presenter)
       #
       # OVERRIDE Hyrax::WorkShowPresenter; this override introduces behavior to handle over-rides.
       def iiif_viewer?
+return false
         Hyrax.config.iiif_image_server? &&
           representative_id.present? &&
           representative_presenter.present? &&
diff --git a/config/initializers/iiif_print.rb b/config/initializers/iiif_print.rb
index e83325c644..15c567a708 100644
--- a/config/initializers/iiif_print.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/iiif_print.rb
@@ -22,4 +22,5 @@
   #   config.sort_iiif_manifest_canvases_by = :date_published
   config.default_iiif_manifest_version = 3
   config.persistence_adapter = IiifPrint::PersistenceLayer::ValkyrieAdapter
+  config.additional_tesseract_options = "-l eng_best"
 end