diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1a103f2..99cad22 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2661,9 +2661,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "pdfium-render"
-version = "0.8.37"
+version = "0.9.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6553f6604a52b3203db7b4e9d51eb4dd193cf455af9e56d40cab6575b547b679"
+checksum = "826f8f64bc88cb15381cbb5aa245c1500632cd8a453b244bc2b0cbaff7098077"
 dependencies = [
  "bitflags 2.13.0",
  "bytemuck",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 01e32d8..9abecb7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ markup5ever_rcdom = "0.39"
 # pinned libpdfium for the target and embeds it in the binary (materialised to a
 # cache dir on first use), so `cargo install sucher` is self-contained; poppler
 # remains the fallback when embedding is skipped.
-pdfium-render = "0.8.37"
+pdfium-render = "0.9.3"
 # Data files (ADR 0016). DuckDB reads Parquet, JSONL and native DuckDB databases;
 # its Parquet/JSON readers are statically linked via the `parquet`/`json` features
 # (NOT loadable extensions), so they work with zero network. `bundled` compiles