diff --git a/apps/pyMetadata/requirements.txt b/apps/pyMetadata/requirements.txt
index cb608095..13be49b3 100644
--- a/apps/pyMetadata/requirements.txt
+++ b/apps/pyMetadata/requirements.txt
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ fuzzywuzzy>=0.18.0
 requests>=2.31.0
 python-Levenshtein>=0.21.1
 mal-api>=0.5.3
-unicode>=2.9
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+Unidecode>=1.3.8
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