diff --git a/misc/completion/ocrmypdf.bash b/misc/completion/ocrmypdf.bash
index 3d00bda8..59bf0cc3 100644
--- a/misc/completion/ocrmypdf.bash
+++ b/misc/completion/ocrmypdf.bash
@@ -5,7 +5,33 @@ set -o errexit
 _ocrmypdf()
 {
     local cur prev cword words split
-    _init_completion -s || return
+
+    # Homebrew on Macs have version 1.3 of bash-completion which doesn't include - see #502
+    if declare -F _init_completions >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+        _init_completion -s || return
+    else
+        COMPREPLY=()
+        _get_comp_words_by_ref cur prev words cword
+    fi
+
+    if [[ $cur == -* ]]; then
+        COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '--language --image-dpi --output-type
+            --sidecar --version --jobs --quiet --verbose --title --author
+            --subject --keywords --rotate-pages --remove-background --deskew
+            --clean --clean-final --unpaper-args --oversample --remove-vectors
+            --threshold --force-ocr --skip-text --redo-ocr
+            --skip-big --jpeg-quality --png-quality --jbig2-lossy
+            --max-image-mpixels --tesseract-config --tesseract-pagesegmode
+            --help --tesseract-oem --pdf-renderer --tesseract-timeout
+            --rotate-pages-threshold --pdfa-image-compression --user-words
+            --user-patterns --keep-temporary-files --output-type
+            --no-progress-bar --pages --fast-web-view' \
+            --  "$cur" ) )
+        return
+    else
+        _filedir
+        return
+    fi
 
     case $prev in
         --version|-h|--help)
@@ -65,25 +91,6 @@ _ocrmypdf()
     esac
 
     $split && return
-
-    if [[ $cur == -* ]]; then
-        COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '--language --image-dpi --output-type
-            --sidecar --version --jobs --quiet --verbose --title --author
-            --subject --keywords --rotate-pages --remove-background --deskew
-            --clean --clean-final --unpaper-args --oversample --remove-vectors
-            --threshold --force-ocr --skip-text --redo-ocr
-            --skip-big --jpeg-quality --png-quality --jbig2-lossy
-            --max-image-mpixels --tesseract-config --tesseract-pagesegmode
-            --help --tesseract-oem --pdf-renderer --tesseract-timeout
-            --rotate-pages-threshold --pdfa-image-compression --user-words
-            --user-patterns --keep-temporary-files --output-type
-            --no-progress-bar --pages --fast-web-view' \
-            --  "$cur" ) )
-        return
-    else
-        _filedir
-        return
-    fi
 } &&
 complete -F _ocrmypdf ocrmypdf