diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 291560e0..49ff4fa8 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def _run(self, command):
 setup(
     # include data files
     name="amazon-textract-textractor",
-    version="1.7.8",
+    version="1.7.9",
     license="Apache 2.0",
     description="A package to use AWS Textract services.",
     url="https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-textract-textractor",
diff --git a/textractor/__init__.py b/textractor/__init__.py
index 15b107b6..a37c00de 100644
--- a/textractor/__init__.py
+++ b/textractor/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-__version__ = "1.7.8"
+__version__ = "1.7.9"
 
 from .textractor import Textractor
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