diff --git a/Makefile-slim b/Makefile-slim
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+++ b/Makefile-slim
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+export PYTHON ?= python3
+VIRTUAL_ENV = $(CURDIR)/venv2
+BIN = $(VIRTUAL_ENV)/bin
+ACTIVATE_VENV = $(BIN)/activate
+OCRD_MODULES = OCRD_CIS OCRD_TESSEROCR
+OCRD_CIS = ocrd-cis-ocropy-binarize ocrd-cis-ocropy-dewarp
+OCRD_TESSEROCR = ocrd-tesserocr-recognize ocrd-tesserocr-segment-region
+PROCESSORS = $(foreach mod,$(OCRD_MODULES),$(foreach proc,$($(mod)), $(proc) ))
+DELEGATORS = $(foreach proc,$(PROCESSORS),$(BIN)/$(proc))
+OCRD_PS_PORT = 8000
+
+slim-venv: docker-compose.yaml .env $(DELEGATORS) | $(VIRTUAL_ENV)
+
+
+# create a delegator to the processing server for the processor
+$(BIN)/ocrd-%: | $(VIRTUAL_ENV)
+	@sed -e "s/{{\s*OCRD_PS_PORT\s*}}/$(OCRD_PS_PORT)/" slim-containers-files/delegator_template.py > $@;
+	@chmod u+x $@
+
+
+$(VIRTUAL_ENV): $(ACTIVATE_VENV)
+	. $(ACTIVATE_VENV) && $(MAKE) -C core install
+
+%/bin/activate:
+	$(PYTHON) -m venv $(subst /bin/activate,,$@)
+	. $@ && pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
+	@echo "set -a; source $(CURDIR)/.env; set +a" >> $@
+
+# append the service to docker-compose for a processor
+add_proc = sed -e "s/{{\s*processor_name\s*}}/$1/" -e "s/{{\s*processor_group_name\s*}}/\L$2/" \
+            slim-containers-files/docker-compose.processor.template.yaml >> docker-compose.yaml;
+
+docker-compose.yaml:
+	@cat slim-containers-files/docker-compose.template.yaml > docker-compose.yaml
+	@$(foreach mod,$(OCRD_MODULES),$(foreach proc,$($(mod)),$(call add_proc,$(proc),$(mod))))
+
+.env:
+	@echo OCRD_PS_PORT=$(OCRD_PS_PORT) >> .env
+	@echo OCRD_PS_MTU=1300 >> .env
+	@echo MONGODB_USER=admin >> .env
+	@echo MONGODB_PASS=admin >> .env
+	@echo 'MONGODB_URL=mongodb://$${MONGODB_USER}:$${MONGODB_PASS}@ocrd-mongodb:27017' >> .env
+	@echo RABBITMQ_USER=admin >> .env
+	@echo RABBITMQ_PASS=admin >> .env
+	@echo 'RABBITMQ_URL=amqp://$${RABBITMQ_USER}:$${RABBITMQ_PASS}@ocrd-rabbitmq:5672' >> .env
+
diff --git a/core b/core
index 552cfcd7..ed55b894 160000
--- a/core
+++ b/core
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 552cfcd72aec38b23a856924391602acc7689267
+Subproject commit ed55b894b09f38d1e870d373efdbe6cc7f5c40cd
diff --git a/slim-containers-files/delegator_template.py b/slim-containers-files/delegator_template.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..3d389f6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slim-containers-files/delegator_template.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import sys
+import subprocess
+from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
+from os.path import basename
+from os import environ
+
+processing_server_address = f"http://localhost:{environ['OCRD_PS_PORT']}"
+processor_name = basename(sys.argv[0])
+
+STOP_WAITING_SERVER = False
+
+
+class CallbackReceiver(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+    """Simple http-server to wait for a processor to finish working.
+
+    The OCR-D processor is started with a callback-url which points to this server. The processor
+    starts working in the background but the call is returned immediately. When the processor is
+    finished it sends a request to the callback-url. The purpose of this server is to wait for the
+    processor to finish and print its result.
+    """
+    def do_POST(self):
+        self.send_response(200)
+        self.send_header("Content-Type", "text/plain")
+        self.end_headers()
+        self.wfile.write("finished".encode("utf-8"))
+        len = int(self.headers.get("Content-Length", 0))
+        data = self.rfile.read(len).decode("utf-8")
+        # TODO: how should the callback-content be handled/printed
+        print(f"Processor finished: {data}")
+        global STOP_WAITING_SERVER
+        STOP_WAITING_SERVER = True
+
+
+def call_processor_and_wait():
+    server = HTTPServer(("0.0.0.0", 0), CallbackReceiver)
+    callback_url = f"http://172.17.0.1:{server.server_address[1]}"
+    cmd = [
+        "ocrd", "network", "client", "processing", "processor",
+        processor_name, "--address", processing_server_address,
+        "--callback-url", callback_url
+    ]
+    args = list(sys.argv)
+    subprocess.run(cmd + args[1:])
+    while not STOP_WAITING_SERVER:
+        server.handle_request()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    call_processor_and_wait()
diff --git a/slim-containers-files/docker-compose.processor.template.yaml b/slim-containers-files/docker-compose.processor.template.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..01122f2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slim-containers-files/docker-compose.processor.template.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+
+  {{ processor_name }}:
+    extends:
+      file: slim-containers-files/{{ processor_group_name}}/docker-compose.yaml
+      service: {{ processor_name }}
+    command: ocrd network processing-worker --database $MONGODB_URL --queue $RABBITMQ_URL --create-queue {{ processor_name }}
+    depends_on:
+      - ocrd-processing-server
+      - ocrd-mongodb
+      - ocrd-rabbitmq
+    # restart: The worker creates its queue but rabbitmq needs a few seconds to be available
+    restart: on-failure:3
+    volumes:
+      - "$PWD/data:/data"
diff --git a/slim-containers-files/docker-compose.template.yaml b/slim-containers-files/docker-compose.template.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cf1a0be7
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+++ b/slim-containers-files/docker-compose.template.yaml
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+networks:
+  default:
+    driver: bridge
+    driver_opts:
+      com.docker.network.driver.mtu: ${OCRD_PS_MTU}
+
+services:
+  ocrd-processing-server:
+    build:
+      context: core
+      args:
+        BASE_IMAGE: ubuntu:20.04
+    ports:
+      - ${OCRD_PS_PORT}:8000
+    environment:
+      MONGODB_USER: ${MONGODB_USER:-admin}
+      MONGODB_PASS: ${MONGODB_PASS:-admin}
+      RABBITMQ_USER: ${RABBITMQ_USER:-admin}
+      RABBITMQ_PASS: ${RABBITMQ_PASS:-admin}
+    command: |
+      /bin/bash -c "echo -e \"
+        process_queue:
+          address: ocrd-rabbitmq
+          port: 5672
+          skip_deployment: true
+          credentials:
+            username: ${RABBITMQ_USER}
+            password: ${RABBITMQ_PASS}
+        database:
+          address: ocrd-mongodb
+          port: 27017
+          skip_deployment: true
+          credentials:
+            username: ${MONGODB_USER}
+            password: ${MONGODB_PASS}
+        hosts: []\" > /ocrd-processing-server-config.yaml && \
+        ocrd network processing-server -a 0.0.0.0:8000 /ocrd-processing-server-config.yaml"
+
+  ocrd-mongodb:
+    image: mongo:latest
+    environment:
+      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: ${MONGODB_USER:-admin}
+      MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: ${MONGODB_PASS:-admin}
+
+  ocrd-rabbitmq:
+    image: rabbitmq:3-management
+    environment:
+      RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_USER: ${RABBITMQ_USER:-admin}
+      RABBITMQ_DEFAULT_PASS: ${RABBITMQ_PASS:-admin}
diff --git a/slim-containers-files/ocrd_cis/Dockerfile b/slim-containers-files/ocrd_cis/Dockerfile
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index 00000000..5839c70a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slim-containers-files/ocrd_cis/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+FROM ocrd/core:latest AS base
+WORKDIR /build-ocrd
+# Remove the next RUN, this is only to checkout my branch while the changes are not in core yet
+RUN git clone https://github.com/ocr-d/core.git && \
+	cd core && \
+	git checkout network-for-slim-prep && \
+	make install
+
+# Not based on ocrd_cis "original" Dockerfile. That seems out of date and in ocrd_all ocrd_cis is
+# simply installed with pip so I do the same here
+COPY ocrd_cis/ ./ocrd_cis/
+COPY setup.py README.md LICENSE ocrd-tool.json Manifest.in ./
+RUN pip install . && rm -rf /build-ocrd
+# TODO: install models for ocrd-cis
+WORKDIR /data
diff --git a/slim-containers-files/ocrd_cis/docker-compose.yaml b/slim-containers-files/ocrd_cis/docker-compose.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b61da055
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slim-containers-files/ocrd_cis/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+services:
+  ocrd-cis-ocropy-binarize:
+    build:
+      context: ../../ocrd_cis
+      dockerfile: ../slim-containers-files/ocrd_cis/Dockerfile
+    command:
+      ocrd network processing-worker ocrd-cis-ocropy-binarize --database $MONGODB_URL --queue $RABBITMQ_URL --create-queue
+
+  ocrd-cis-ocropy-dewarp:
+    build:
+      context: ../../ocrd_cis
+      dockerfile: ../slim-containers-files/ocrd_cis/Dockerfile
+    command:
+      ocrd network processing-worker ocrd-cis-ocropy-dewarp --database $MONGODB_URL --queue $RABBITMQ_URL --create-queue
diff --git a/slim-containers-files/ocrd_tesserocr/Dockerfile b/slim-containers-files/ocrd_tesserocr/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2ffc7544
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slim-containers-files/ocrd_tesserocr/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+FROM ocrd/core:latest AS base
+WORKDIR /build-ocrd-core
+# Remove the next RUN, this is only to checkout my branch while the changes are not in core yet
+RUN git clone https://github.com/ocr-d/core.git && \
+	cd core && \
+	git checkout network-for-slim-prep && \
+	make install
+
+# copied from https://github.com/OCR-D/ocrd_tesserocr/blob/master/Dockerfile and modified
+ARG VCS_REF
+ARG BUILD_DATE
+LABEL \
+    maintainer="https://ocr-d.de/kontakt" \
+    org.label-schema.vcs-ref=$VCS_REF \
+    org.label-schema.vcs-url="https://github.com/OCR-D/ocrd_tesserocr" \
+    org.label-schema.build-date=$BUILD_DATE
+
+ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
+ENV PYTHONIOENCODING utf8
+
+# avoid HOME/.local/share (hard to predict USER here)
+# so let XDG_DATA_HOME coincide with fixed system location
+# (can still be overridden by derived stages)
+ENV XDG_DATA_HOME /usr/local/share
+
+WORKDIR /build-ocrd
+COPY setup.py .
+COPY ocrd_tesserocr/ocrd-tool.json .
+COPY README.md .
+COPY requirements.txt .
+COPY requirements_test.txt .
+COPY ocrd_tesserocr ./ocrd_tesserocr
+COPY Makefile .
+RUN make deps-ubuntu && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    g++ \
+    && make deps install \
+    && rm -rf /build-ocrd \
+    && apt-get -y remove --auto-remove g++ libtesseract-dev make
+RUN ocrd resmgr download ocrd-tesserocr-recognize Fraktur.traineddata
+RUN ocrd resmgr download ocrd-tesserocr-recognize deu.traineddata
+
+WORKDIR /data
+VOLUME /data
diff --git a/slim-containers-files/ocrd_tesserocr/docker-compose.yaml b/slim-containers-files/ocrd_tesserocr/docker-compose.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a29a51cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/slim-containers-files/ocrd_tesserocr/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+services:
+  ocrd-tesserocr-recognize:
+    build:
+      context: ../../ocrd_tesserocr
+      dockerfile: ../slim-containers-files/ocrd_tesserocr/Dockerfile
+    command:
+      ocrd network processing-worker ocrd-tesseroc-recognize --database $MONGODB_URL --queue $RABBITMQ_URL --create-queue
+
+  ocrd-tesserocr-segment-region:
+    build:
+      context: ../../ocrd_tesserocr
+      dockerfile: ../slim-containers-files/ocrd_tesserocr/Dockerfile
+    command:
+      ocrd network processing-worker ocrd-tesserocr-segment-region --database $MONGODB_URL --queue $RABBITMQ_URL --create-queue