v16.1.2 release notes

Ghostscript is more picky about a specific case with SMask that cannot be converted to PDF/A

Details here
https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/ghostpdl/commit/4dcfae36bb4dcbc4ef3b5e5afc98bcde0d6b9ddc

.docker/Dockerfile

@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
   img2pdf \
   libsm6 libxext6 libxrender-dev \
   pngquant \
+  python-is-python3 \
   tesseract-ocr \
   tesseract-ocr-chi-sim \
   tesseract-ocr-deu \

.docker/Dockerfile.alpine

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 James R. Barlow
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
 
-FROM alpine:3.18 as base
+FROM alpine:3.19 as base
 
 ENV LANG=C.UTF-8
 ENV TZ=UTC

docs/release_notes.rst

@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ OCRmyPDF typically supports the three most recent Python versions.
 
 .. |OCRmyPDF PyPI| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ocrmypdf.svg
 
+v16.1.2
+=======
+
+-  Fixed test suite failure when using Ghostscript 10.3.
+-  Other minor corrections.
+
 v16.1.1
 =======
 

misc/batch.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python3
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 findingorder <https://github.com/findingorder>
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 nilsro <https://github.com/nilsro>
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
 """Example of using ocrmypdf as a library in a script.
@@ -15,6 +16,10 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import logging
 import sys
+import os
+import posixpath
+import shutil
+import filecmp
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import ocrmypdf
@@ -22,32 +27,62 @@ import ocrmypdf
 # pylint: disable=logging-format-interpolation
 # pylint: disable=logging-not-lazy
 
+def filecompare(a,b):
+    try:
+        return filecmp.cmp(a, b, shallow=True)
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        return False
+
+
 script_dir = Path(__file__).parent
+# set archive_dir to a path for backup original documents. Leave empty if not required.
+archive_dir = "/pdfbak"
 
 if len(sys.argv) > 1:
     start_dir = Path(sys.argv[1])
 else:
-    start_dir = Path('.')
+    start_dir = Path(".")
 
 if len(sys.argv) > 2:
     log_file = Path(sys.argv[2])
 else:
-    log_file = script_dir.with_name('ocr-tree.log')
+    log_file = script_dir.with_name("ocr-tree.log")
 
 logging.basicConfig(
     level=logging.INFO,
-    format='%(asctime)s %(message)s',
+    format="%(asctime)s %(message)s",
     filename=log_file,
-    filemode='a',
+    filemode="a",
 )
 
+logging.info(f"Start directory {start_dir}")
+
 ocrmypdf.configure_logging(ocrmypdf.Verbosity.default)
 
-for filename in start_dir.glob("**/*.py"):
+for filename in start_dir.glob("**/*.pdf"):
     logging.info(f"Processing {filename}")
-    result = ocrmypdf.ocr(filename, filename, deskew=True)
+    if ocrmypdf.pdfa.file_claims_pdfa(filename)["pass"]:
-    if result == ocrmypdf.ExitCode.already_done_ocr:
+        logging.info("Skipped document because it already contained text")
-        logging.error("Skipped document because it already contained text")
+    else:
-    elif result == ocrmypdf.ExitCode.ok:
+        archive_filename = archive_dir + str(filename)
+        if len(archive_dir) > 0 and not filecompare(filename, archive_filename):
+            logging.info(f"Archiving document to {archive_filename}")
+            try:
+                shutil.copy2(filename, posixpath.dirname(archive_filename))
+            except IOError as io_err:
+                os.makedirs(posixpath.dirname(archive_filename))
+                shutil.copy2(filename, posixpath.dirname(archive_filename))
+        try:
+            result = ocrmypdf.ocr(filename, filename, deskew=True)
+            logging.info(result)
+        except ocrmypdf.exceptions.EncryptedPdfError:
+            logging.info("Skipped document because it is encrypted")
+        except ocrmypdf.exceptions.PriorOcrFoundError:
+            logging.info("Skipped document because it already contained text")
+        except ocrmypdf.exceptions.DigitalSignatureError:
+            logging.info("Skipped document because it has a digital signature")
+        except ocrmypdf.exceptions.TaggedPDFError:
+            logging.info("Skipped document because it does not need ocr as it is tagged")
+        except:
+            logging.error("Unhandled error occured")
         logging.info("OCR complete")
-    logging.info(result)

misc/watcher.py

@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 
 # Do not enable annotations!
 # https://github.com/tiangolo/typer/discussions/598
-# from __future__ import annotations
-from __future__ import annotations
 
 import json
 import logging

pyproject.toml

@@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ target-version = "py310"
 
 [tool.ruff.lint.isort]
 known-first-party = ["ocrmypdf"]
-required-imports = ["from __future__ import annotations"]
 
 [tool.ruff.lint.pydocstyle]
 convention = "google"

src/ocrmypdf/cli.py

@@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ Online documentation is located at:
         action='store',
         type=numeric(float, 0),
         metavar='MPixels',
-        help="Set maximum number of pixels to unpack before treating an image as a "
+        help="Set maximum number of megapixels to unpack before treating an image as a "
         "decompression bomb",
         default=250.0,
     )

tests/test_preprocessing.py

@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ import pytest
 from PIL import Image
 
 from ocrmypdf._exec import ghostscript, tesseract
+from ocrmypdf.exceptions import ExitCode
 from ocrmypdf.helpers import Resolution
 from ocrmypdf.pdfinfo import PdfInfo
 
-from .conftest import check_ocrmypdf, have_unpaper
+from .conftest import check_ocrmypdf, have_unpaper, run_ocrmypdf
 
 RENDERERS = ['hocr', 'sandwich']
 
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@ def test_non_square_resolution(renderer, resources, outpdf):
     in_pageinfo = PdfInfo(resources / 'aspect.pdf')
     assert in_pageinfo[0].dpi.x != in_pageinfo[0].dpi.y
 
-    check_ocrmypdf(
+    proc = run_ocrmypdf(
         resources / 'aspect.pdf',
         outpdf,
         '--pdf-renderer',
@@ -115,6 +116,10 @@ def test_non_square_resolution(renderer, resources, outpdf):
         '--plugin',
         'tests/plugins/tesseract_cache.py',
     )
+    # PDF/A conversion can fail for this file if Ghostscript >= 10.3, so don't test
+    # exit code in that case
+    if proc.returncode != ExitCode.pdfa_conversion_failed:
+        proc.check_returncode()
 
     out_pageinfo = PdfInfo(outpdf)