diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 156893da..ec91241e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ apprise>=1.4.0
 litellm>=1.0.0,<2.0.0
 
 # Self-hosted OCR engines (optional – only required when the provider is enabled)
-pytesseract>=0.3.10  # Python wrapper for Tesseract OCR
+pytesseract>=0.3.13  # Python wrapper for Tesseract OCR
 pdf2image>=1.17.0  # Convert PDF pages to images (used by Tesseract and EasyOCR providers)
 ocrmypdf>=16.0.0,<18.0.0  # Post-processing: embeds searchable text layers into PDFs via Tesseract
 meilisearch>=0.31.0  # Full-text search engine client