diff -rupN --no-dereference tesseract-5.5.0/CMakeLists.txt tesseract-5.5.0-new/CMakeLists.txt
--- tesseract-5.5.0/CMakeLists.txt	2024-11-11 10:41:55.641233422 +0100
+++ tesseract-5.5.0-new/CMakeLists.txt	2024-11-11 10:41:55.645233467 +0100
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ elseif(CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR MATCHES "a
   set(HAVE_AVX512F FALSE)
   set(HAVE_FMA FALSE)
   set(HAVE_SSE4_1 FALSE)
-  set(HAVE_NEON TRUE)
+  check_cxx_compiler_flag("-mfpu=neon" HAVE_NEON)
 
 elseif(CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR MATCHES "arm.*")
 
diff -rupN --no-dereference tesseract-5.5.0/src/arch/simddetect.cpp tesseract-5.5.0-new/src/arch/simddetect.cpp
--- tesseract-5.5.0/src/arch/simddetect.cpp	2024-11-10 20:23:34.000000000 +0100
+++ tesseract-5.5.0-new/src/arch/simddetect.cpp	2024-11-11 10:41:55.645233467 +0100
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ SIMDDetect::SIMDDetect() {
     // SSE detected.
     SetDotProduct(DotProductSSE, &IntSimdMatrix::intSimdMatrixSSE);
 #endif
-#if defined(HAVE_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+#if defined(HAVE_NEON)
   } else if (neon_available_) {
     // NEON detected.
     SetDotProduct(DotProductNEON, &IntSimdMatrix::intSimdMatrixNEON);
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ void SIMDDetect::Update() {
   } else if (dotproduct == "accelerate") {
     SetDotProduct(DotProductAccelerate, IntSimdMatrix::intSimdMatrix);
 #endif
-#if defined(HAVE_NEON) || defined(__aarch64__)
+#if defined(HAVE_NEON)
   } else if (dotproduct == "neon" && neon_available_) {
     // NEON selected by config variable.
     SetDotProduct(DotProductNEON, &IntSimdMatrix::intSimdMatrixNEON);