diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 26a60d58..3d92dda5 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -42,5 +42,5 @@ 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
 pdf2image>=1.17.0  # Convert PDF pages to images (used by Tesseract and EasyOCR providers)
-ocrmypdf>=16.0.0,<17.0.0  # Post-processing: embeds searchable text layers into PDFs via Tesseract
+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