diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai/pyproject.toml b/packages/jupyter-ai/pyproject.toml
index 9a75c2cae..cc72d89fb 100644
--- a/packages/jupyter-ai/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai/pyproject.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "typing_extensions>=4.5.0",
     "traitlets>=5.0",
     "deepmerge>=1.0",
-    "pypdf==4.1.0",
 ]
 
 dynamic = ["version", "description", "authors", "urls", "keywords"]