# OCRmyPDF v17.7.0

- Product: OCRmyPDF (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ocrmypdf)
- Vendor: ocrmypdf
- Date: 2026-07-17
- Version: v17.7.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/releases/tag/v17.7.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/ocrmypdf/releases/v17.7.0

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- **changed** — Docker images now run as a non-root user (app, uid/gid 1000) by default instead of as root
- **changed** — Docker images now default their working directory to /data
- **changed** — Ubuntu Docker image now installs Tesseract 5 from the Ubuntu archive instead of the alex-p/tesseract-ocr5 PPA
- **changed** — Base images updated to Ubuntu 26.04 and Alpine 3.24
- **fixed** — Fixed a missing space in the error message shown when OCRmyPDF cannot access its working directory inside a Docker container
- **changed** — Updated packaged dependencies including starlette, tornado, python-multipart, and cryptography

- The Docker images now run as a non-root user (`app`, uid/gid 1000) by default
  rather than as root, as a defense-in-depth measure. If you bind-mount a
  directory for input and output, you may now need to add a `--user` argument so
  the container can write to it; the correct value differs for rootless Docker,
  Podman, and rootful Docker, and is described in the Docker documentation.
  Piping the input and output through stdin/stdout still works with no
  permission setup.
- The Docker images now default their working directory to `/data`, so files in
  a directory mounted there can be given as relative paths without an explicit
  `--workdir`.
- The Ubuntu Docker image now installs Tesseract 5 from the Ubuntu archive
  instead of the third-party `alex-p/tesseract-ocr5` PPA, and the base images
  were updated to Ubuntu 26.04 and Alpine 3.24.
- Fixed a missing space in the error message shown when OCRmyPDF cannot access
  its working directory inside a Docker container.
- Updated packaged dependencies, including the optional web service stack
  (starlette, tornado, python-multipart) and cryptography.