[Bug]: Ghostscript 10.6.x

[Calorion]

What were you trying to do?

OCR a PDF.

I expected it to OCR the PDF without erroring, given that I have Ghostscript 10.07.0 installed. If I read

OCRmyPDF/src/ocrmypdf/builtin_plugins/ghostscript.py

Line 132 in 4e974eb

if gs_version >= Version('10.6.0'):

correctly, it will error on any version of Ghostscript greater than 10.6.

Where are you installing/running from?

Homebrew

OCRmyPDF version

16.13.0

What operating system are you working on?

macOS

Operating system details and version

12.7.6 (running from MacPorts, which is not an option above)

Simple sanity checks

• Operating system is currently supported by its vendor (not end of life)
• Python version is compatible with OCRmyPDF
• This issue is not about a specific input file

Relevant log output

Ghostscript 10.6.x contains JPEG encoding errors that may      
corrupt images. OCRmyPDF will attempt to mitigate, but this
version is strongly not recommended. Please upgrade to a newer
version. As of 2025-12, 10.6.0 is the latest version of
Ghostscript.

[jbarlow83]

Unfortunately Ghostscript 10.7 has still not fixed the JPEG corruption issue. I updated the code to confirm this. As the documentation suggests, I recommend installing verapdf so you can avoid Ghostscript.