Comment 4 for bug 1039602

I do not know about any workarounds, I have installed 0.7.12, by rebuilding the package.
Instructions:
1. download ubuntu source package
2. throw away everything, but the *.changes and *.dsc files and the debian directory.
Rename them to the actual version downloaded from the developer
(0.7.12 in my case), edit ocrodjvu_0.7.12-1ubuntu1.dsc to have the new version number.
3. find the rules file in the debian directory, edit it to remove tests (we do not have ocropus on ubuntu)
4. download new source & extract it
5. copy the debian directory under ocrodjvu-0.7.12
6. cd ocrodjvu-0.7.12
7. dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -us -uc

ocrodjvu_0.7.12-1ubuntu1_all.deb will be created. You can install that. You can also download my version from
http://szofi.elte.hu/~rpsoft/ocrodjvu_0.7.12-1ubuntu1_all.deb
but it is not signed, you cannot check if it is reliable.