diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d36781893..9d782271f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ servicelayer[google,amazon]==1.23.2
 languagecodes==1.1.1
 countrytagger==0.1.2
 pyicu==2.12
-google-cloud-vision==3.7.2
+google-cloud-vision==3.8.1
 tesserocr==2.7.1
 spacy==3.6.1 # pinned because spacy 3.8 requires numpy >2 which breaks fasttext (see https://groups.google.com/g/fasttext-library/c/4EOM0-S6xHU)
 numpy<2.0.0 # pinned because otherwise spacy requires an incompatible numpy