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Consumption fails with "Ghostscript PDF/A rendering failed"

When updating Paperless-NGX, you may get the following error:

Consumption fails with "Ghostscript PDF/A rendering failed" Newer versions of OCRmyPDF will fail if it encounters errors during processing. This is intentional as the output archive file may differ in unexpected or undesired ways from the original. As the logs indicate, if you encounter this error you can set PAPERLESS_OCR_USER_ARGS: '{"continue_on_soft_render_error": true}' to try to 'force' processing documents with this issue.

To fix this, you can:

  1. Go to your paperless web interface
  2. Go to Configuration menu
  3. Go to OCR Settings tab
  4. In the OCR Arguments tile, enter {"continue_on_soft_render_error": true}
  5. Save

And, the error is fixed!