diff --git a/docs/cookbook.md b/docs/cookbook.md
index 06941a97..4fc8a514 100644
--- a/docs/cookbook.md
+++ b/docs/cookbook.md
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ works if all you want to is to apply image processing or PDF/A
 conversion.
 
 ```bash
-ocrmypdf --tesseract-timeout=0 --remove-background input.pdf output.pdf
+ocrmypdf --tesseract-timeout 0 --remove-background input.pdf output.pdf
 ```
 
 :::{versionchanged} v14.1.0
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ This command also removes OCR generated by third party tools.
 You can also optimize all images without performing any OCR:
 
 ```bash
-ocrmypdf --tesseract-timeout=0 --optimize 3 --skip-text input.pdf output.pdf
+ocrmypdf --tesseract-timeout 0 --optimize 3 --skip-text input.pdf output.pdf
 ```
 
 ### Process only certain pages