diff --git a/.github/workflows/test.yml b/.github/workflows/test.yml
index e8c393ab4..934e1505a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test.yml
@@ -61,53 +61,9 @@ jobs:
         name: pypi_packages
         path: dist/*
 
-  build-n-publish-anaconda:
-    name: Build and publish anaconda packages
-    needs: lint_and_test
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/')
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
-      - uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v3
-        with:
-          python-version: 3.9
-          miniforge-variant: Mambaforge
-      - name: install dependencies build
-        shell: bash -l {0}
-        run: mamba install colorama pip ruamel ruamel.yaml rich jsonschema conda-verify anaconda-client
-      - name: Build linux-64 conda package
-        uses: prefix-dev/rattler-build-action@v0.2.6
-        with:
-          recipe-path: "conda/recipe.yaml"
-          build-args: "--experimental --target-platform linux-64"
-      - name: Build osx-64 conda package
-        uses: prefix-dev/rattler-build-action@v0.2.6
-        with:
-          recipe-path: "conda/recipe.yaml"
-          build-args: "--experimental --target-platform osx-64"
-#      - name: Build osx-arm64 conda package
-#        uses: prefix-dev/rattler-build-action@v0.2.6
-#        with:
-#          recipe-path: "conda/recipe.yaml"
-#          build-args: "--experimental --target-platform osx-arm64"
-      - name: Upload conda package
-        run: |
-          for pkg in $(find output -type f \( -name "*.conda" -o -name "*.tar.bz2" \) ); do
-            echo "Uploading ${pkg}"
-            rattler-build upload anaconda -o mittagessen -a ${{ secrets.ANACONDA_TOKEN }} "${pkg}"
-          done
-      - name: Upload conda artifacts to GH storage
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-        with:
-          name: conda_packages
-          path: output/*/*.conda
-
   autodraft-gh-release:
     name: Create github release
-    needs: [build-n-publish-anaconda, build-n-publish-pypi]
+    needs: build-n-publish-pypi
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     steps:
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 747b1036c..72632cee2 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -25,18 +25,12 @@ Installation
 
 kraken only runs on **Linux or Mac OS X**. Windows is not supported.
 
-The latest stable releases can be installed either from `PyPi <https://pypi.org>`_:
+The latest stable releases can be installed from `PyPi <https://pypi.org>`_:
 
 ::
 
   $ pip install kraken
 
-or through `conda <https://anaconda.org>`_:
-
-::
-
-  $ conda install -c conda-forge -c mittagessen kraken
-
 If you want direct PDF and multi-image TIFF/JPEG2000 support it is necessary to
 install the `pdf` extras package for PyPi:
 
diff --git a/conda/recipe.yaml b/conda/recipe.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 77c01b689..000000000
--- a/conda/recipe.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-context:
-  git_url: .
-  git_tag: ${{ git.latest_tag(git_url) }}
-
-package:
-  name: kraken
-  version: ${{ git_tag }}
-
-source:
-  git: ${{ git_url }}
-  tag: ${{ git_tag }}
-
-build:
-  script: pip install --no-deps .
-
-requirements:
-  build:
-    - python>=3.9,<3.12
-    - setuptools>=36.6.0,<70.0.0
-    - pbr
-  host:
-     - python>=3.9,<3.12
-  run:
-     - python>=3.9,<3.12
-     - python-bidi~=0.4.0
-     - lxml
-     - regex
-     - requests
-     - click>=8.1
-     - numpy~=2.0.0
-     - pillow>=9.2.0
-     - scipy~=1.13.0
-     - jinja2~=3.0
-     - torchvision
-     - pytorch~=2.4.0
-     - cudatoolkit
-     - jsonschema
-     - scikit-image~=0.24.0
-     - scikit-learn~=1.2.1
-     - shapely~=1.8.5
-     - pyvips
-     - coremltools
-     - pyarrow
-     - lightning~=2.4.0
-     - torchmetrics>=1.1.0
-     - conda-forge::threadpoolctl~=3.5.0
-     - albumentations
-     - rich
-
-about:
-  homepage: https://kraken.re
-  license:  Apache-2.0
-  summary: 'OCR/HTR engine for all the languages'
-  repository: https://github.com/mittagessen/kraken
-  documentation: https://kraken.re
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
index dda41e35e..4c1076a09 100644
--- a/docs/index.rst
+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -67,22 +67,12 @@ or
 
 respectively.
 
-Installation using Conda
-------------------------
+Development Branch Installation using Conda
+-------------------------------------------
 
-To install the stable version through `conda <https://anaconda.org>`_:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   $ conda install -c conda-forge -c mittagessen kraken
-
-Again PDF/multi-page TIFF/JPEG2000 support requires some additional dependencies:
-
-.. code-block:: console
-
-   $ conda install -c conda-forge pyvips
-
-The git repository contains some environment files that aid in setting up the latest development version:
+To install the latest development branch through `conda
+<https://anaconda.org>`_  clone the kraken git repository and install with the
+provided environment files:
 
 .. code-block:: console