diff --git a/tika-app/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/cli/TikaCLI.java b/tika-app/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/cli/TikaCLI.java
index 3be3da0f95..5ab1d8e4cd 100644
--- a/tika-app/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/cli/TikaCLI.java
+++ b/tika-app/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/cli/TikaCLI.java
@@ -217,7 +217,6 @@ public void process(InputStream stream, OutputStream output, Metadata metadata)
      */
     private String password = System.getenv("TIKA_PASSWORD");
     private DigestingParser.Digester digester = null;
-    private boolean asyncMode = false;
     private boolean pipeMode = true;
     private boolean fork = false;
     private boolean prettyPrint;
@@ -344,12 +343,12 @@ private void configurePDFExtractSettings() {
         if (configFilePath == null && context.get(PDFParserConfig.class) == null) {
             PDFParserConfig pdfParserConfig = new PDFParserConfig();
             pdfParserConfig.setExtractInlineImages(true);
+            pdfParserConfig.setExtractIncrementalUpdateInfo(true);
             pdfParserConfig.setParseIncrementalUpdates(true);
             String warn = "As a convenience, TikaCLI has turned on extraction of\n" +
-                    "inline images and incremental updates for the PDFParser (TIKA-2374 and " +
-                    "TIKA-4017).\n" +
-                    "Aside from the -z option, this is not the default behavior\n" +
-                    "in Tika generally or in tika-server.";
+                    "inline images and incremental updates for the PDFParser (TIKA-2374, " +
+                    "TIKA-4017 and TIKA-4354).\n" +
+                    "This is not the default behavior in Tika generally or in tika-server.";
             LOG.info(warn);
             context.set(PDFParserConfig.class, pdfParserConfig);
         }
@@ -409,8 +408,6 @@ public void process(String arg) throws Exception {
             // ignore, as container-aware detectors are now always used
         } else if (arg.equals("-f") || arg.equals("--fork")) {
             fork = true;
-        } else if (arg.equals("-a") || arg.equals("--async")) {
-            asyncMode = true;
         } else if (arg.startsWith("--config=")) {
             configFilePath = arg.substring("--config=".length());
         } else if (arg.startsWith("--digest=")) {
@@ -454,7 +451,6 @@ public void process(String arg) throws Exception {
             }
             extractDir = new File(dirPath);
         } else if (arg.equals("-z") || arg.equals("--extract")) {
-            configurePDFExtractSettings();
             type = NO_OUTPUT;
             context.set(EmbeddedDocumentExtractor.class, new FileEmbeddedDocumentExtractor());
         } else if (arg.equals("-r") || arg.equals("--pretty-print")) {
@@ -485,6 +481,7 @@ public void process(String arg) throws Exception {
                 } else {
                     url = new URL(arg);
                 }
+                configurePDFExtractSettings();
                 if (recursiveJSON) {
                     handleRecursiveJson(url, System.out);
                 } else {
diff --git a/tika-app/src/test/java/org/apache/tika/cli/TikaCLITest.java b/tika-app/src/test/java/org/apache/tika/cli/TikaCLITest.java
index e6c5c22963..b91f5935a2 100644
--- a/tika-app/src/test/java/org/apache/tika/cli/TikaCLITest.java
+++ b/tika-app/src/test/java/org/apache/tika/cli/TikaCLITest.java
@@ -281,6 +281,14 @@ public void testJsonMetadataPrettyPrintOutput() throws Exception {
         assertTrue(fb > -1 && title > -1 && fb > title);
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testDefaultPDFIncrementalUpdateSettings() throws Exception {
+        String json = getParamOutContent("-J",
+                resourcePrefix + "testPDF_incrementalUpdates.pdf");
+        assertTrue(json.contains("pdf:incrementalUpdateCount\":\"2\""));
+        assertTrue(json.contains("embeddedResourceType\":\"VERSION\""));
+    }
+
     /**
      * Tests -l option of the cli
      *
diff --git a/tika-app/src/test/resources/test-data/testPDF_incrementalUpdates.pdf b/tika-app/src/test/resources/test-data/testPDF_incrementalUpdates.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8494cc8396
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