diff --git a/homelab-chatbot/backend/pyproject.toml b/homelab-chatbot/backend/pyproject.toml
index 7f82cc1..60fb56b 100644
--- a/homelab-chatbot/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/homelab-chatbot/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "llama-index-embeddings-huggingface>=0.4",
     "python-multipart>=0.0.9",
     "python-docx>=1.1",
-    "pypdf>=4.0",
+    "pypdf>=6.12.0",
     "pytesseract>=0.3",
     "Pillow>=10.0",
 ]
diff --git a/homelab-chatbot/backend/uv.lock b/homelab-chatbot/backend/uv.lock
index 6b9c779..85e0caa 100644
--- a/homelab-chatbot/backend/uv.lock
+++ b/homelab-chatbot/backend/uv.lock
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ requires-dist = [
     { name = "pillow", specifier = ">=10.0" },
     { name = "pydantic", specifier = ">=2.9" },
     { name = "pydantic-settings", specifier = ">=2.6" },
-    { name = "pypdf", specifier = ">=4.0" },
+    { name = "pypdf", specifier = ">=6.12.0" },
     { name = "pytesseract", specifier = ">=0.3" },
     { name = "python-docx", specifier = ">=1.1" },
     { name = "python-multipart", specifier = ">=0.0.9" },
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