diff --git a/requirements/python b/requirements/python
index 1c200697..42ebf212 100644
--- a/requirements/python
+++ b/requirements/python
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 # This file contains all python dependencies that are required by the textract
 # package in order for it to properly work.
 
-argcomplete~=1.10.0
-beautifulsoup4~=4.8.0
-chardet==3.*
+argcomplete==3.5.1
+beautifulsoup4==4.12.3
+chardet==5.2.0
 docx2txt~=0.8
-extract-msg<=0.29.* #Last with python2 support
-pdfminer.six==20191110 #Last with python2 support
-python-pptx~=0.6.18
-six~=1.12.0
-SpeechRecognition~=3.8.1
-xlrd~=1.2.0
+extract-msg==0.52.0 #Last with python2 support
+pdfminer.six==20240706 #Last with python2 support
+python-pptx==1.0.2
+six==1.16.0
+SpeechRecognition==3.11.0
+xlrd==2.0.1
diff --git a/requirements/python-doc b/requirements/python-doc
index d8cd533c..6593f850 100644
--- a/requirements/python-doc
+++ b/requirements/python-doc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # this only includes packages that are needed for documentation build.
 
-sphinx==2.1.2
-sphinx_rtd_theme==0.4.3
-sphinx-argparse==0.2.5
+sphinx==8.1.3
+sphinx_rtd_theme==3.0.2
+sphinx-argparse==0.5.2