diff --git a/OCRmyPDF.sh b/OCRmyPDF.sh
index b19bebfe..37cf775d 100644
--- a/OCRmyPDF.sh
+++ b/OCRmyPDF.sh
@@ -180,9 +180,9 @@ fi
 # Initialize path to temporary files
 today=$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M")
 fld=$(basename "$FILE_INPUT_PDF" | sed 's/[.][^.]*//')
-TMP_FLD="./tmp/$today.filename.$fld"
-FILE_TMP="$TMP_FLD/tmp.txt"						# temporary file with a very short lifetime (may be used for several things)
-FILE_PAGES_INFO="$TMP_FLD/pages-info.txt"				# for each page: page #; width in pt; height in pt
+TMP_FLD="${TMP}/$today.filename.$fld"
+FILE_TMP="${TMP_FLD}/tmp.txt"						# temporary file with a very short lifetime (may be used for several things)
+FILE_PAGES_INFO="${TMP_FLD}/pages-info.txt"				# for each page: page #; width in pt; height in pt
 FILE_OUTPUT_PDF_CAT="${TMP_FLD}/ocred.pdf"				# concatenated OCRed PDF files
 FILE_OUTPUT_PDFA_WO_META="${TMP_FLD}/ocred-pdfa-wo-metadata.pdf"	# PDFA file before appending metadata
 FILE_VALIDATION_LOG="${TMP_FLD}/pdf_validation.log"			# log file containing the results of the validation of the PDF/A file
diff --git a/src/config.sh b/src/config.sh
index 50b203be..d2533cb7 100644
--- a/src/config.sh
+++ b/src/config.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ LOG_DEBUG="3"				# debug level logging
 
 # various paths
 SRC="./src"				# location of the source folder (except source of external tools like jhove)
+TMP="./tmp"				# location of the temporary files (one sub-folder will be created per PDF file to be processed)
 OCR_PAGE="$SRC/ocrPage.sh"		# path to the script aimed at OCRing one page
 JHOVE="./jhove/bin/JhoveApp.jar"	# java SW for validating the final PDF/A
 JHOVE_CFG="./jhove/conf/jhove.conf"	# location of the jhove config file