Add --ghostscript-jpeg-quality and --ghostscript-jpeg-maxdpi
Expose Ghostscript's -dJPEGQ and image downsampling switches as advanced, plugin-scoped options for tuning PDF/A output, without polluting the central OcrOptions registry. The optimizer's existing --jpeg-quality remains the recommended JPEG quality control. - GhostscriptOptions gains jpeg_quality and jpeg_maxdpi fields and CLI args (advanced help text). jpeg_quality=0 is honored as Ghostscript's maximum compression rather than being silently coerced to the default. - _exec.ghostscript.generate_pdfa() forwards both values; when jpeg_maxdpi is set, downsample threshold is pinned at 1.0. - _get_plugin_options falls back to extra_attrs for namespaced fields so plugins can own their options without registering them centrally. - Documentation explains the rationale: Ghostscript is the legacy path (pypdfium + verapdf is preferred in v17+), the optimizer is the supported file-size lever, and lowering quality is almost always a better trade than downsampling.
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strategy. The `--color-conversion-strategy` option allows you to select a
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different strategy, such as `RGB`.
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## Advanced Ghostscript tuning
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:::{versionadded} 17.5.0
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:::
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OCRmyPDF intentionally hides most Ghostscript controls because Ghostscript
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is a legacy code path. The preferred PDF/A pipeline in v17+ uses pypdfium2
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as the rasterizer and verapdf to validate speculative PDF/A output, with
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Ghostscript reserved as a fallback for PDFs that cannot be made compliant
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without it. OCRmyPDF's separate optimizer (controlled by `--optimize`,
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`--jpeg-quality`, `--png-quality`, etc.) is the supported way to shrink
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output PDFs: it gives consistent results across input files, and isolates
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Ghostscript so it can focus on producing a PDF/A with as few image
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transformations as possible.
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The two options below are exposed for advanced users who want to tune
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Ghostscript's intermediate PDF/A output directly. Most users will get
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more predictable results from the optimizer.
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### `--ghostscript-jpeg-quality Q`
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Sets Ghostscript's `-dJPEGQ` switch for images that Ghostscript chooses
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to recompress to JPEG while building a PDF/A. `Q=0` requests maximum
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compression and `Q=100` requests best quality; if the flag is omitted,
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OCRmyPDF passes `95` (the historical default). This only affects images
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Ghostscript transcodes — existing JPEGs pass through unchanged on modern
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Ghostscript releases. For end-to-end JPEG quality tuning, prefer
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`--jpeg-quality`, which is implemented by the OCRmyPDF optimizer and is
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applied independently of whatever Ghostscript decides to do.
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Note: setting both `--ghostscript-jpeg-quality` and `--jpeg-quality` can
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result in double JPEG recompression, since the optimizer may re-encode
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images that Ghostscript already recompressed. This can degrade quality
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in subtle ways.
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### `--ghostscript-jpeg-maxdpi DPI`
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Enables Ghostscript's image downsampling and caps color, grayscale, and
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monochrome image resolution to `DPI`. The downsample threshold is set to
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`1.0`, so any image whose effective DPI exceeds the cap will be
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downsampled.
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Reducing JPEG quality is almost always a better trade than downsampling
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at the same compression budget: a 400 DPI JPEG at modest quality usually
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looks much better than a 200 DPI JPEG, because the JPEG codec can spend
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bits where they count. Downsampling is also dangerous for PDFs that
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combine a low-resolution color image with a high-resolution monochrome
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mask — capping the mask resolution can produce visible quality loss.
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For these reasons, prefer `--jpeg-quality` over `--ghostscript-jpeg-maxdpi`
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unless you specifically want to force a hard DPI cap.
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Example:
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```bash
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ocrmypdf --output-type pdfa \
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--ghostscript-jpeg-quality 80 \
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--ghostscript-jpeg-maxdpi 150 \
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in.pdf out.pdf
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```
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These options only take effect when Ghostscript is invoked for PDF/A
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conversion (`--output-type pdfa`, `pdfa-1`, `pdfa-2`, or `pdfa-3`, or
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when `--output-type auto` falls back to Ghostscript).
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## PDF/A output modes
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:::{versionchanged} 17.0.0
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