diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
index e952ec41b..c0e8022ac 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -704,6 +704,20 @@ but could result in missing text content.
         this value if you are certain your documents are not malicious and
         you need the text which was not OCRed
 
+#### [`PAPERLESS_OCR_COLOR_CONVERSION_STRATEGY=<RGB>`](#PAPERLESS_OCR_COLOR_CONVERSION_STRATEGY) {#PAPERLESS_OCR_COLOR_CONVERSION_STRATEGY}
+
+: Controls the Ghostscript color conversion strategy when creating the archive file. This setting
+will only be utilized if the output is a version of PDF/A.
+
+    Valid options are CMYK, Gray, LeaveColorUnchanged, RGB or UseDeviceIndependentColor.
+
+    You can find more on the settings [here](https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/VectorDevices.html#color-conversion-and-management) in the Ghostscript documentation.
+
+    !!! warning
+
+        Utilizing some of the options may result in errors when creating archive
+        files from PDFs.
+
 #### [`PAPERLESS_OCR_USER_ARGS=<json>`](#PAPERLESS_OCR_USER_ARGS) {#PAPERLESS_OCR_USER_ARGS}
 
 : OCRmyPDF offers many more options. Use this parameter to specify any
diff --git a/src/paperless/settings.py b/src/paperless/settings.py
index 86f1f569f..9daeb8a47 100644
--- a/src/paperless/settings.py
+++ b/src/paperless/settings.py
@@ -864,6 +864,11 @@ OCR_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS: Optional[int] = None
 if os.environ.get("PAPERLESS_OCR_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS") is not None:
     OCR_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS: int = int(os.environ.get("PAPERLESS_OCR_MAX_IMAGE_PIXELS"))
 
+OCR_COLOR_CONVERSION_STRATEGY = os.getenv(
+    "PAPERLESS_OCR_COLOR_CONVERSION_STRATEGY",
+    "RGB",
+)
+
 OCR_USER_ARGS = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_OCR_USER_ARGS", "{}")
 
 # GNUPG needs a home directory for some reason
diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
index 3523da7bd..babcf6bcf 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/parsers.py
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ class RasterisedDocumentParser(DocumentParser):
             "progress_bar": False,
         }
 
+        if "pdfa" in ocrmypdf_args["output_type"]:
+            ocrmypdf_args[
+                "color_conversion_strategy"
+            ] = settings.OCR_COLOR_CONVERSION_STRATEGY
+
         if settings.OCR_MODE == "force" or safe_fallback:
             ocrmypdf_args["force_ocr"] = True
         elif settings.OCR_MODE in ["skip", "skip_noarchive"]: