v17.12.1

Gen-Verse/MMaDAv17.12.1Sep 16, 2026by github-actions[bot]

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AI Summary

A bug fix release correcting the output redirection for CLI flags, ensuring `--version` and `--help` display correctly.

Key Highlights

  • Fixed `--version` and `--help` output redirection to standard output instead of standard error.
  • Corrected a regression introduced in v17.8.0 affecting plugin and library writes.

Full Release Notes

**Fixes**

- `ocrmypdf --version` and `ocrmypdf --help` printed to standard error
  instead of standard output, so `version=$(ocrmypdf --version)` came back
  empty and `ocrmypdf --help | less` showed nothing. OCRmyPDF redirects file
  descriptor 1 to standard error early in startup, before it parses the
  command line, so that a stray write from a plugin or a library cannot
  corrupt a PDF being written to standard output; argparse's own output was
  caught by that redirection too and is now routed back to the real standard
  output. Error messages continue to go to standard error. Broken since
  v17.8.0.

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