diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f7bc80fea..bea8b18e0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ To use tess-two from your app, edit your app module's `build.gradle` file to add
 tess-two as an external dependency:
 
 	dependencies {
-	    compile 'com.rmtheis:tess-two:6.3.0'
+	    compile 'com.rmtheis:tess-two:7.0.0'
 	}
 	
 [Javadoc][javadoc] is available.
diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 77addd299..d53c1c9a7 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ buildscript {
 allprojects {
 
     group = 'com.rmtheis'
-    version = '6.3.0'
+    version = '7.0.0'
 
     repositories {
         jcenter()
diff --git a/tessdata b/tessdata
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..eb769ead0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tessdata
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit eb769ead0516ecd3c83e10f27678e8fd9e474cb8