diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 659e9a9f..42d6efdd 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 
 # Stage 1: Build dependencies
-FROM python:3.11 AS builder
+FROM python:3.13 AS builder
 
 WORKDIR /app
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ FROM python:3.13.2-slim
 WORKDIR /app
 
 # Copy installed dependencies
-COPY --from=builder /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages /usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages
+COPY --from=builder /usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages /usr/local/lib/python3.13/site-packages
 COPY --from=builder /usr/local/bin /usr/local/bin
 
 # Copy application files correctly
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 82bcc5fd..879cf836 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,18 +1,14 @@
-fastapi[all]
-uvicorn
-celery
-redis
-sqlalchemy
-pydantic
-boto3
-pikepdf
-openai
-# Add this line explicitly
-#pymupdf==1.23.5
-pymupdf
-requests
-dropbox
-azure-ai-documentintelligence
-authlib
-python-dotenv
-starlette
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+fastapi[all]  # Web framework with all extras
+uvicorn  # ASGI server
+celery  # Task queue
+redis  # Message broker for Celery
+sqlalchemy  # Database ORM
+pydantic  # Data validation
+openai  # GPT integration for metadata extraction
+pymupdf  # PDF processing, text extraction, and detection (imported as 'fitz')
+requests  # HTTP client
+dropbox  # Dropbox integration
+azure-ai-documentintelligence  # Azure OCR service
+authlib  # Authentication
+python-dotenv  # Environment variables
+starlette  # ASGI toolkit (used by FastAPI)
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