diff --git a/src/ocr_recog/requirements.txt b/src/ocr_recog/requirements.txt
index de946384..38cbdea5 100644
--- a/src/ocr_recog/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/ocr_recog/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ lmdb==0.98
 msgpack==1.0.0
 natsort==7.0.1
 nltk==3.4.5
-numpy==1.18.2
+numpy==1.21.0
 optional==0.0.1
 Pillow==6.1.0
 pynvim==0.4.1