diff --git a/misc/completion/ocrmypdf.bash b/misc/completion/ocrmypdf.bash
index 616a2ca6..4e8c6565 100644
--- a/misc/completion/ocrmypdf.bash
+++ b/misc/completion/ocrmypdf.bash
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # ocrmypdf completion                                     -*- shell-script -*-
 
-# Copyright 2019 Frank Pille
+# Copyright 2019, 2021 Frank Pille
 # Copyright 2020 Alex Willner
 #
 # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
@@ -23,95 +23,264 @@
 
 set -o errexit
 
-_ocrmypdf()
+__ocrmypdf_arguments()
 {
-    local cur prev cword words split
+    local arguments="--help                   (show help message)
+--language               (language(s) of the file to be OCRed)
+--image-dpi              (assume this DPI if input image DPI is unknown)
+--output-type            (select PDF output options)
+--sidecar                (write OCR to text file)
+--version                (print program version and exit)
+--jobs                   (how many worker processes to use)
+--quiet                  (suppress INFO messages)
+--verbose                (set verbosity level)
+--title                  (set metadata)
+--author                 (set metadata)
+--subject                (set metadata)
+--keywords               (set metadata)
+--rotate-pages           (rotate pages to correct orientation)
+--remove-background      (attempt to remove background from pages)
+--deskew                 (fix small horizontal alignment skew)
+--clean                  (clean document images before OCR)
+--clean-final            (clean document images and keep result)
+--unpaper-args           (a quoted string of arguments to pass to unpaper)
+--oversample             (oversample images to this DPI)
+--remove-vectors         (don\'t send vector objects to OCR)
+--threshold              (threshold images before OCR)
+--force-ocr              (OCR documents that already have printable text)
+--skip-text              (skip OCR on any pages that already contain text)
+--redo-ocr               (redo OCR on any pages that seem to have OCR already)
+--skip-big               (skip OCR on pages larger than this many MPixels)
+--optimize               (select optimization level)
+--jpeg-quality           (JPEG quality [0..100])
+--png-quality            (PNG quality [0..100])
+--jbig2-lossy            (enable lossy JBIG2 (see docs))
+--pages                  (apply OCR to only the specified pages)
+--max-image-mpixels      (image decompression bomb threshold)
+--pdf-renderer           (select PDF renderer options)
+--rotate-pages-threshold (page rotation confidence)
+--pdfa-image-compression (set PDF/A image compression options)
+--fast-web-view          (if file size if above this amount in MB linearize PDF)
+--plugin                 (name of plugin to import)
+--keep-temporary-files   (keep temporary files (debug)
+--tesseract-config       (set custom tesseract config file)
+--tesseract-pagesegmode  (set tesseract --psm)
+--tesseract-oem          (set tesseract --oem)
+--tesseract-timeout      (maximum number of seconds to wait for OCR)
+--user-words             (specify location of user words file)
+--user-patterns          (specify location of user patterns file)
+--no-progress-bar        (disable the progress bar)
+"
 
-    # Homebrew on Macs have version 1.3 of bash-completion which doesn't include - see #502
-    if declare -F _init_completion >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-        _init_completion -s || return
-    else
-        COMPREPLY=()
-        _get_comp_words_by_ref cur prev words cword
+    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$arguments" -- "$cur") )
+
+    # Remove description if only one completion exists
+    if [[ ${#COMPREPLY[*]} -eq 1 ]]; then
+        COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[0]%% *} )
     fi
+}
 
-    if [[ $cur == -* ]]; then
-        COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '--language --image-dpi --output-type
-            --sidecar --version --jobs --quiet --verbose --title --author
-            --subject --keywords --rotate-pages --remove-background --deskew
-            --clean --clean-final --unpaper-args --oversample --remove-vectors
-            --threshold --force-ocr --skip-text --redo-ocr
-            --skip-big --jpeg-quality --png-quality --jbig2-lossy
-            --max-image-mpixels --tesseract-config --tesseract-pagesegmode
-            --help --tesseract-oem --pdf-renderer --tesseract-timeout
-            --rotate-pages-threshold --pdfa-image-compression --user-words
-            --user-patterns --keep-temporary-files --output-type
-            --no-progress-bar --pages --fast-web-view' \
-            --  "$cur" ) )
-        return
-    else
-        _filedir
-        return
+__ocrmypdf_output-type()
+{
+    local choices="pdfa   (output a PDF/A (default))
+pdf    (output a standard PDF)
+pdfa-1 (output a PDF/A-1b)
+pdfa-2 (output a PDF/A-2b)
+pdfa-3 (output a PDF/A-3b)
+none   (do not produce an output PDF (for example, if you only care about --sidecar))"
+
+    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$choices" -- "$cur") )
+
+    # Remove description if only one completion exists
+    if [[ ${#COMPREPLY[*]} -eq 1 ]]; then
+        COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[0]%% *} )
     fi
+}
 
+__ocrmypdf_verbose()
+{
+    local choices="0  (standard output messages)
+1  (troubleshooting output messages)
+2  (debugging output messages)"
+
+    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$choices" -- "$cur") )
+
+    # Remove description if only one completion exists
+    if [[ ${#COMPREPLY[*]} -eq 1 ]]; then
+        COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[0]%% *} )
+    fi
+}
+
+__ocrmypdf_optimize()
+{
+    local choices="0  (do not optimize)
+1  (do safe, lossless optimizations (default))
+2  (do some lossy optimizations)
+3  (do aggressive lossy optimizations (including lossy JBIG2))"
+
+    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$choices" -- "$cur") )
+
+    # Remove description if only one completion exists
+    if [[ ${#COMPREPLY[*]} -eq 1 ]]; then
+        COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[0]%% *} )
+    fi
+}
+
+__ocrmypdf_pdf-renderer()
+{
+    local choices="auto      (auto select PDF renderer)
+hocr      (use hOCR renderer)
+hocrdebug (uses hOCR renderer in debug mode, showing recognized text)
+sandwich  (use sandwich renderer)"
+
+    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$choices" -- "$cur") )
+
+    # Remove description if only one completion exists
+    if [[ ${#COMPREPLY[*]} -eq 1 ]]; then
+        COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[0]%% *} )
+    fi
+}
+
+__ocrmypdf_pdfa-image-compression()
+{
+    local choices="auto     (let Ghostscript decide how to compress images)
+jpeg     (convert color and grayscale images to JPEG)
+lossless (convert color and grayscale images to lossless (PNG))"
+
+    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$choices" -- "$cur") )
+
+    # Remove description if only one completion exists
+    if [[ ${#COMPREPLY[*]} -eq 1 ]]; then
+        COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[0]%% *} )
+    fi
+}
+
+__ocrmypdf_tesseract-pagesegmode()
+{
+    local choices="0  (orientation and script detection (OSD) only)
+1  (automatic page segmentation with OSD)
+2  (automatic page segmentation, but no OSD, or OCR)
+3  (fully automatic page segmentation, but no OSD (default))
+4  (assume a single column of text of variable sizes)
+5  (assume a single uniform block of vertically aligned text)
+6  (assume a single uniform block of text)
+7  (treat the image as a single text line)
+8  (treat the image as a single word)
+9  (treat the image as a single word in a circle)
+10 (treat the image as a single character)
+11 (sparse text - find as much text as possible in no particular order)
+12 (sparse text with OSD)
+13 (raw line - treat the image as a single text line)"
+
+    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$choices" -- "$cur") )
+
+    # Remove description if only one completion exists
+    if [[ ${#COMPREPLY[*]} -eq 1 ]]; then
+        COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[0]%% *} )
+    fi
+}
+
+__ocrmypdf_tesseract-oem()
+{
+    local choices="0 (legacy engine only)
+1 (neural nets LSTM engine only)
+2 (legacy + LSTM engines)
+3 (default, based on what is available)"
+
+    COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W "$choices" -- "$cur") )
+
+    # Remove description if only one completion exists
+    if [[ ${#COMPREPLY[*]} -eq 1 ]]; then
+        COMPREPLY=( ${COMPREPLY[0]%% *} )
+    fi
+}
+
+__ocrmypdf_check_previous()
+{
     case $prev in
-        --version|-h|--help)
-            return
-            ;;
-        --user-words|--user-patterns|--tesseract-config)
-            _filedir
-            return
-            ;;
-        --output-type)
-            COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W 'pdfa pdf pdfa-1 pdfa-2 pdfa-3' -- \
-                "$cur" ) )
-            return
-            ;;
-        --pdf-renderer)
-            COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W 'auto hocr sandwich' -- "$cur" ) )
-            return
-            ;;
-        --pdfa-image-compression)
-            COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W 'auto jpeg lossless' -- "$cur" ) )
-            return
-            ;;
-        -O|--optimize|--tesseract-oem)
-            COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '{0..3}' -- "$cur" ) )
-            return
-            ;;
-        --jpeg-quality|--png-quality)
-            COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '{0..100}' -- "$cur" ) )
-            return
+        -h|--help|--version)
+            return 0
             ;;
         -l|--language)
             COMPREPLY=$( command tesseract --list-langs 2>/dev/null )
             COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '${COMPREPLY[@]##*:}' -- "$cur" ) )
-            return
+            return 0
             ;;
-        --image-dpi|--oversample|--skip-big|--max-image-mpixels|\
-        --tesseract-timeout|--rotate-pages-threshold)
-            COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -P "$cur" -W '{0..9}' ) )
-            return
+        --output-type)
+            __ocrmypdf_output-type
+            return 0
             ;;
         -j|--jobs)
             COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '{1..'$( _ncpus )'}' -- "$cur" ) )
-            return
+            return 0
             ;;
         -v|--verbose)
-            COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '{0..2}' -- "$cur" ) ) # max level ?
-            return
+            __ocrmypdf_verbose
+            return 0
+            ;;
+        -O|--optimize)
+            __ocrmypdf_optimize
+            return 0
+            ;;
+        --pdf-renderer)
+            __ocrmypdf_pdf-renderer
+            return 0
+            ;;
+        --pdfa-image-compression)
+            __ocrmypdf_pdfa-image-compression
+            return 0
             ;;
         --tesseract-pagesegmode)
-            COMPREPLY=( $( compgen -W '{1..13}' -- "$cur" ) )
-            return
+            __ocrmypdf_tesseract-pagesegmode
+            return 0
             ;;
-        --sidecar|--title|--author|--subject|--keywords|--unpaper-args|--pages|--fast-web-view)
+        --tesseract-oem)
+            __ocrmypdf_tesseract-oem
+            return 0
+            ;;
+        --title|--author|--subject|--keywords|--unpaper-args|--pages|--plugin|\
+        --jpeg-quality|--png-quality|--image-dpi|--oversample|--skip-big|--max-image-mpixels|\
+        --tesseract-timeout|--rotate-pages-threshold|--fast-web-view)
             # argument required but no completions available
-            return
+            return 0
+            ;;
+        --tesseract-config|--user-words|--user-patterns|--sidecar)
+            _filedir
+            return 0
             ;;
     esac
 
-    $split && return
+    return 1
+}
+
+_ocrmypdf()
+{
+    local OLDIFS="$IFS"
+    local IFS=$'\n'
+
+    local cur prev
+
+    # Homebrew on Macs have version 1.3 of bash-completion which doesn't include - see #502
+    if declare -F _init_completion >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      _init_completion  || return
+    else
+        COMPREPLY=()
+        _get_comp_words_by_ref cur prev
+    fi
+
+    if __ocrmypdf_check_previous -ne 0; then
+        return
+    fi
+
+    if [[ "$cur" == -* ]]; then
+        __ocrmypdf_arguments
+    else
+        _filedir
+    fi
+
+    IFS="$OLDIFS"
+
+    return
 } &&
 complete -F _ocrmypdf ocrmypdf