diff --git a/webapp/requirements.txt b/webapp/requirements.txt
index 6f098c4c..82bbf57b 100644
--- a/webapp/requirements.txt
+++ b/webapp/requirements.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,6 @@ djangorestframework~=3.10
 django-background-tasks~=1.2
 numpy~=1.15
 pandas~=0.23
-xlrd~=1.2
+xlrd~=2.0
 sklearn~=0.0
 medcat~=0.3