diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 36328a081a6..f250fb213ef 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ jsonschema>=4.23.0,<5.0.0 # validating json schema - aligned with openapi-core +
 websockets==15.0.1 # for realtime API
 soundfile==0.12.1 # for audio file processing
 openapi-core==0.21.0 # for OpenAPI compliance tests
+pypdf>=6.6.2 # for PDF text extraction in RAG ingestion
 
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 # LITELLM ENTERPRISE DEPENDENCIES