diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 156893da..64ea13da 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ litellm>=1.0.0,<2.0.0
 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,<18.0.0  # Post-processing: embeds searchable text layers into PDFs via Tesseract
-meilisearch>=0.31.0  # Full-text search engine client
+meilisearch>=0.41.0  # Full-text search engine client
 stripe>=7.0.0,<16.0.0  # Stripe billing SDK (MIT license)
 
 # Error and performance monitoring