diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8a6cda4..9ed545d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ Textractor can be cited using:
   author = {Belval, Edouard and Delteil, Thomas and Schade, Martin and Radhakrishna, Srividhya},
   title = {{Amazon Textractor}},
   url = {https://github.com/aws-samples/amazon-textract-textractor},
-  version = {1.8.4},
+  version = {1.8.5},
   year = {2024}
 }
 ```
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 42b012a..0751c44 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ def _run(self, command):
 setup(
     # include data files
     name="amazon-textract-textractor",
-    version="1.8.4",
+    version="1.8.5",
     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 a59381e..6d7e817 100644
--- a/textractor/__init__.py
+++ b/textractor/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-__version__ = "1.8.4"
+__version__ = "1.8.5"
 
 from .textractor import Textractor