diff --git a/python-services/kyc-ocr/requirements.txt b/python-services/kyc-ocr/requirements.txt
index 97653ec4..2a731f85 100644
--- a/python-services/kyc-ocr/requirements.txt
+++ b/python-services/kyc-ocr/requirements.txt
@@ -11,6 +11,6 @@ confluent-kafka==2.15.0
 paddlepaddle==3.3.1
 paddleocr==3.7.0
 # Docling (IBM Research document understanding)
-docling==2.112.0
+docling==2.125.0
 # Optional: for VLM integration
 # openai==1.40.0  # if using GPT-4V