diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 4ec5c274f..94a4b4815 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ languagecodes==1.1.1
 countrytagger==0.1.2
 pyicu==2.12
 google-cloud-vision==3.7.2
-tesserocr==2.7.1
+tesserocr==2.8.0
 spacy==3.6.1 # pinned because spacy 3.8 requires numpy >2 which breaks fasttext (see https://groups.google.com/g/fasttext-library/c/4EOM0-S6xHU)
 numpy<2.0.0 # pinned because otherwise spacy requires an incompatible numpy
 fingerprints==1.1.1