diff --git a/OCRmyPDF.sh b/OCRmyPDF.sh
index a6f29956..756572fc 100644
--- a/OCRmyPDF.sh
+++ b/OCRmyPDF.sh
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ LOG_ERR="0"			# 0=only error messages
 LOG_INFO="1"			# 1=error messages and some infos
 LOG_DEBUG="2"			# 2=debug level logging
 JHOVE="./jhove/bin/JhoveApp.jar"	# java SW for validating the final PDF/A
+JHOVE_CFG="./jhove/conf/jhove.conf"	# location of the jhove config file
 
 # Initialization the configuration parameters with default values
 VERBOSITY="$LOG_ERR"		# default verbosity level
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@ cd "`dirname $0`"
 ! command -v pdftk > /dev/null && echo "Please install pdftk. Exiting..." >&2 && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
 [ $PREPROCESS_CLEAN -eq 1 ] && ! command -v unpaper > /dev/null && echo "Please install unpaper. Exiting..." >&2 && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
 ! command -v tesseract > /dev/null && echo "Please install tesseract and tesseract-data. Exiting..." >&2 && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
-! command -v python > /dev/null && echo "Please install python, as well as the following python libraries: reportlab, lxml. Exiting..." >&2 && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
+! command -v python > /dev/null && echo "Please install python, and the python libraries: reportlab, lxml. Exiting..." >&2 && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
 ! command -v gs > /dev/null && echo "Please install ghostcript. Exiting..." >&2 && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
 ! command -v java > /dev/null && echo "Please install java. Exiting..." >&2 && exit $EXIT_MISSING_DEPENDENCY
 
@@ -309,7 +310,7 @@ done < "$FILE_SIZE_PAGES"
 
 # validate generated pdf file (compliance to PDF/A)
 [ $VERBOSITY -ge $LOG_DEBUG ] && echo "Output file: Checking compliance to PDF/A standard" 
-java -jar "$JHOVE" -m PDF-hul "$FILE_OUTPUT_PDFA" > "$FILE_VALIDATION_LOG"
+java -jar "$JHOVE" -c "$JHOVE_CFG" -m PDF-hul "$FILE_OUTPUT_PDFA" > "$FILE_VALIDATION_LOG"
 grep -i "Status|Message" "$FILE_VALIDATION_LOG" # summary of the validation
 [ $VERBOSITY -ge $LOG_DEBUG ] && cat "$FILE_VALIDATION_LOG"
 # check the validation results
diff --git a/jhove/conf/jhove.conf b/jhove/conf/jhove.conf
index 8a1ebe9c..bf50f3bf 100644
--- a/jhove/conf/jhove.conf
+++ b/jhove/conf/jhove.conf
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  xmlns="http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/xml/ns/jhove/jhoveConfig"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/xml/ns/jhove/jhoveConfig
                      http://hul.harvard.edu/ois/xml/xsd/jhove/1.4/jhoveConfig.xsd">
- <jhoveHome>/root/jhove-1_9/jhove/</jhoveHome>
+ <jhoveHome>/root/OCRmyPDF/jhove/</jhoveHome>
  <defaultEncoding>utf-8</defaultEncoding>
  <tempDirectory>/var/tmp</tempDirectory>
  <bufferSize>131072</bufferSize>