diff --git a/requirements-development.txt b/requirements-development.txt
index 1743766c..c70bcfbf 100644
--- a/requirements-development.txt
+++ b/requirements-development.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ click
 file-magic
 lxml
 openpyxl
-pymupdf>=1.16.8
+pymupdf<1.20.0
 https://github.com/turicas/parquet-python/archive/enhancement/move-to-thriftpy2.zip#egg=parquet
 pdfminer.six
 requests