diff --git a/src/mmda/parsers/pdfplumber_parser.py b/src/mmda/parsers/pdfplumber_parser.py
index cdd2cbfb..40fdae8e 100644
--- a/src/mmda/parsers/pdfplumber_parser.py
+++ b/src/mmda/parsers/pdfplumber_parser.py
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@
 import string
 import pdfplumber
 
+try:
+    # pdfplumber >= 0.8.0
+    import pdfplumber.utils.text as ppu
+except:
+    # pdfplumber <= 0.7.6
+    import pdfplumber.utils as ppu
+
 import itertools
 from mmda.types.span import Span
 from mmda.types.box import Box