diff --git a/dist/tesseract.js b/dist/tesseract.js
index 117dbd4..1db4202 100644
--- a/dist/tesseract.js
+++ b/dist/tesseract.js
@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ exports.defaultOptions = {
 };
 
 exports.spawnWorker = function spawnWorker(instance, workerOptions) {
-    var worker = new Worker(workerOptions.workerPath);
+    if (window.Blob && window.URL) {
+        var blob = new Blob(['importScripts("' + workerOptions.workerPath + '");']);
+        var worker = new Worker(window.URL.createObjectURL(blob));
+    } else {
+        var worker = new Worker(workerOptions.workerPath);
+    }
+
     worker.onmessage = function (e) {
         var packet = e.data;
         instance._recv(packet);