diff --git a/workshop/cisco-ai-pods/load-embeddings/requirements.txt b/workshop/cisco-ai-pods/load-embeddings/requirements.txt
index ec2ae97b86..66c629d5ee 100644
--- a/workshop/cisco-ai-pods/load-embeddings/requirements.txt
+++ b/workshop/cisco-ai-pods/load-embeddings/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-pypdf==6.1.3
+pypdf==6.4.0
 langchain_community==0.3.22
 langchain-nvidia-ai-endpoints==0.3.7
 langchain-weaviate==0.0.5