diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index 8e24ac4356..e92219835a 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -12,16 +12,14 @@ before_build:
   - if %platform%==Win64 set generator=Visual Studio 14 Win64
   - if %platform%==Win32 set vcplatform=Win32
   - if %platform%==Win64 set vcplatform=x64
-
-  - set LEPT_VER=1.73
-
-  - ps: Start-FileDownload "https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/archive/v$env:LEPT_VER.zip" -FileName leptonica.zip
-  - 7z x leptonica.zip
-  - cmake -Hleptonica-%LEPT_VER% -Bleptonica-%LEPT_VER%/build -G "%generator%"
-  - msbuild leptonica-%LEPT_VER%/build/leptonica.sln /p:Platform=%vcplatform% /logger:"C:\Program Files\AppVeyor\BuildAgent\Appveyor.MSBuildLogger.dll"
-
+  
+  - curl -fsS -o cppan.zip https://cppan.org/client/cppan-master-win32-client.zip
+  - 7z x cppan.zip
+  - set PATH=%PATH%;%cd%
+  
 build_script:
+  - cppan
   - mkdir build
   - cd build
-  - cmake .. -G "%generator%" -DLeptonica_DIR=leptonica-%LEPT_VER%/build -DSTATIC=1
+  - cmake .. -G "%generator%" -DSTATIC=1
   - msbuild tesseract.sln /p:Platform=%vcplatform% /logger:"C:\Program Files\AppVeyor\BuildAgent\Appveyor.MSBuildLogger.dll"