diff --git a/src/ocrmypdf/__main__.py b/src/ocrmypdf/__main__.py
index 7424cb1d..84447ebe 100755
--- a/src/ocrmypdf/__main__.py
+++ b/src/ocrmypdf/__main__.py
@@ -545,6 +545,11 @@ def check_options_ocr_behavior(options, log):
         raise argparse.ArgumentError(
             None,
             "Error: choose only one of --force-ocr, --skip-text, --redo-ocr.")
+    if options.force_ocr and any((options.mask_barcodes, options.threshold)):
+        raise argparse.ArgumentError(
+            '--force-ocr',
+            'Error: --force-ocr currently may not be used with --threshold or --mask-barcodes'
+        )
 
 
 def check_options_optimizing(options, log):