diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 57fdf8b..4075840 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ pypdf==6.5.0
 # Bump to a wheel-backed version to avoid macOS OpenMP build issues
 scikit-learn==1.5.2
 nltk==3.9.2
-python-docx==0.8.11
+python-docx==1.2.0
 
 # Testing
 pytest>=7.4.0