diff --git a/doc/tesseract.1.asc b/doc/tesseract.1.asc
index cb5d8837..b4730ea1 100644
--- a/doc/tesseract.1.asc
+++ b/doc/tesseract.1.asc
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ DESCRIPTION
 tesseract(1) is a commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP
 between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by
 UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005, and has been developed
-at Google since then.
+at Google until 2018.
 
 
 IN/OUT ARGUMENTS
diff --git a/tesseract.pc.cmake b/tesseract.pc.cmake
index f4aa7ace..e626051a 100644
--- a/tesseract.pc.cmake
+++ b/tesseract.pc.cmake
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ libdir=@CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR@
 includedir=@CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_INCLUDEDIR@
 
 Name: @tesseract_NAME@
-Description: An OCR Engine that was developed at HP Labs between 1985 and 1995... and now at Google.
+Description: An OCR Engine that was developed at HP Labs (1985-1995) and Google (2006-2018).
 URL: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
 Version: @tesseract_VERSION@
 Requires.private: lept
diff --git a/tesseract.pc.in b/tesseract.pc.in
index 81b1531f..f09b2adc 100644
--- a/tesseract.pc.in
+++ b/tesseract.pc.in
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ libdir=@libdir@
 includedir=@includedir@
 
 Name: @PACKAGE_NAME@
-Description: An OCR Engine that was developed at HP Labs between 1985 and 1995... and now at Google.
+Description: An OCR Engine that was developed at HP Labs (1985-1995) and Google (2006-2018).
 URL: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
 Version: @VERSION@
 Requires.private: lept