diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 13531c80..7a5d5615 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "image"
-version = "0.23.3"
+version = "0.23.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 dependencies = [
  "bytemuck 1.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap 2.33.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "cloudflare-zlib 0.2.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "crc 1.8.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "image 0.23.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
+ "image 0.23.4 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "indexmap 1.3.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "itertools 0.9.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "libdeflater 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum either 1.5.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "bb1f6b1ce1c140482ea30ddd3335fc0024ac7ee112895426e0a629a6c20adfe3"
 "checksum glob 0.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "9b919933a397b79c37e33b77bb2aa3dc8eb6e165ad809e58ff75bc7db2e34574"
 "checksum hermit-abi 0.1.8 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "1010591b26bbfe835e9faeabeb11866061cc7dcebffd56ad7d0942d0e61aefd8"
-"checksum image 0.23.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "bfc5483f8d5afd3653b38a196c52294dcb239c3e1a5bade1990353ea13bcf387"
+"checksum image 0.23.4 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "9117f4167a8f21fa2bb3f17a652a760acd7572645281c98e3b612a26242c96ee"
 "checksum indexmap 1.3.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "076f042c5b7b98f31d205f1249267e12a6518c1481e9dae9764af19b707d2292"
 "checksum inflate 0.4.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "1cdb29978cc5797bd8dcc8e5bf7de604891df2a8dc576973d71a281e916db2ff"
 "checksum itertools 0.9.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "284f18f85651fe11e8a991b2adb42cb078325c996ed026d994719efcfca1d54b"
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index c5815fac..d988e471 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -129,9 +129,6 @@ pub struct Options {
     ///
     /// Default: `false`
     pub pretend: bool,
-    /// Used only in CLI interface
-    #[doc(hidden)]
-    pub recursive: bool,
     /// Write to output even if there was no improvement in compression.
     ///
     /// Default: `false`
@@ -293,7 +290,6 @@ impl Default for Options {
         Options {
             backup: false,
             pretend: false,
-            recursive: false,
             fix_errors: false,
             force: false,
             preserve_attrs: false,
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index ca2302f2..267c19c6 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ fn main() {
             .collect(),
         &out_dir,
         &out_file,
-        opts.recursive,
+        matches.is_present("recursive"),
         true,
     );
 
@@ -390,10 +390,6 @@ fn parse_opts_into_struct(
         opts.force = true;
     }
 
-    if matches.is_present("recursive") {
-        opts.recursive = true;
-    }
-
     if matches.is_present("fix") {
         opts.fix_errors = true;
     }