diff --git a/tests/spoof/tesseract_badutf8.py b/tests/spoof/tesseract_badutf8.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 3cbb6625..00000000
--- a/tests/spoof/tesseract_badutf8.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-# © 2017 James R. Barlow: github.com/jbarlow83
-#
-# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
-# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
-# "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
-# without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
-# distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
-# permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
-# the following conditions:
-#
-# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
-# in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-#
-# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
-# OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
-# MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
-# IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
-# CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
-# TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
-# SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-
-import sys
-
-"""Tesseract bad utf8 spoof
-
-In 'hocr' mode or 'pdf' mode, return error code 1 and some non-Unicode
-text because tesseract seems to do that in some cases related to
-language pack version mismatches
-
-"""
-
-
-VERSION_STRING = '''tesseract 4.0.0
- leptonica-1.77.0
-  libjpeg 9c : libpng 1.6.35 : libtiff 4.0.10 : zlib 1.2.11 : libopenjp2 2.3.0
- Found AVX2
- Found AVX
- Found SSE
-SPOOFED
-'''
-
-# Japanese "Invalid UTF-8" encoded in Shift JIS
-BAD_UTF8 = b'\x96\xb3\x8c\xf8\x82\xc8UTF-8\x0a'
-
-
-def main():
-    if sys.argv[1] == '--version':
-        print(VERSION_STRING, file=sys.stderr)
-        sys.exit(0)
-    elif sys.argv[1] == '--list-langs':
-        print('List of available languages (1):\neng', file=sys.stderr)
-        sys.exit(0)
-    elif sys.argv[-2] == '--print-parameters':
-        print("Some parameters", file=sys.stderr)
-        print("textonly_pdf\t1\tSome help text")
-        sys.exit(0)
-    elif sys.argv[-2] in ('hocr', 'pdf'):
-        sys.stdout.buffer.write(BAD_UTF8)
-        sys.exit(1)
-    elif sys.argv[-1] == 'stdout':
-        # input file is at sys.argv[-2] but we don't look at it
-        print(
-            """Orientation: 0
-Orientation in degrees: 0
-Orientation confidence: 100.00
-Script: 1
-Script confidence: 100.00""",
-            file=sys.stderr,
-        )
-    else:
-        print("Spoof doesn't understand arguments", file=sys.stderr)
-        print(sys.argv, file=sys.stderr)
-        sys.exit(1)
-
-    sys.exit(0)
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()
diff --git a/tests/test_stdio.py b/tests/test_stdio.py
index 250ca6f2..21112468 100644
--- a/tests/test_stdio.py
+++ b/tests/test_stdio.py
@@ -33,11 +33,6 @@ run_ocrmypdf_api = pytest.helpers.run_ocrmypdf
 spoof = pytest.helpers.spoof
 
 
-@pytest.fixture
-def spoof_tess_bad_utf8(tmp_path_factory):
-    return spoof(tmp_path_factory, tesseract='tesseract_badutf8.py')
-
-
 def test_stdin(spoof_tesseract_noop, ocrmypdf_exec, resources, outpdf):
     input_file = str(resources / 'francais.pdf')
     output_file = str(outpdf)