diff --git a/OCRmyPDF.sh b/OCRmyPDF.sh
index fa7c6d43..ded1187b 100755
--- a/OCRmyPDF.sh
+++ b/OCRmyPDF.sh
@@ -148,8 +148,9 @@ cd "$BASEPATH"
 [ $PREPROCESS_CLEAN -eq 1 ] && ! command -v unpaper > /dev/null && echo "Please install unpaper. Exiting..." && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
 ! command -v tesseract > /dev/null && echo "Please install tesseract and tesseract-data. Exiting..." && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
 ! python2 -c 'import lxml' 2>/dev/null && echo "Please install the python library lxml. Exiting..." && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
-! python2 -c 'import reportlab; hasattr(reportlab, "Version") and reportlab.Version >= "3.0"' 2>/dev/null \
+! python2 -c 'import sys, reportlab; (getattr(reportlab, "Version", "0.0") >= "3.0") or sys.exit(1)' 2>/dev/null \
 	&& echo "Please install the python library reportlab. Exiting..." && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
+
 ! command -v gs > /dev/null && echo "Please install ghostscript. Exiting..." && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
 ! command -v java > /dev/null && echo "Please install java. Exiting..." && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY