diff --git a/api/requirements.txt b/api/requirements.txt
index 7d3389f8dd..8a5ef37364 100644
--- a/api/requirements.txt
+++ b/api/requirements.txt
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ redis[hiredis]~=5.0.3
 openpyxl==3.1.2
 chardet~=5.1.0
 python-docx~=1.1.0
-pypdfium2==4.16.0
+pypdfium2~=4.17.0
 resend~=0.7.0
 pyjwt~=2.8.0
 anthropic~=0.23.1
@@ -76,4 +76,4 @@ twilio==9.0.0
 qrcode~=7.4.2
 azure-storage-blob==12.9.0
 azure-identity==1.15.0
-lxml==5.1.0
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+lxml==5.1.0