diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9f20bc4c1..1f312dd8a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
         "tiktoken==0.6.0",
         "requests==2.31.0",
         "pypdf==4.3.1",
-        "python-docx==1.1.2",
+        "python-docx==1.2.0",
         "scikit-learn==1.5.1",
         "langchain-text-splitters==0.2.2",
         "spacy==3.7.5",