diff --git a/textproc/py-docling-parse/Makefile b/textproc/py-docling-parse/Makefile
index f2caeaa3cbeb..4b312b30448b 100644
--- a/textproc/py-docling-parse/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-docling-parse/Makefile
@@ -1,37 +1,38 @@
 PORTNAME=	docling-parse
-DISTVERSION=	7.4.0
+DISTVERSION=	7.8.0
 CATEGORIES=	textproc python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 DISTNAME=	${PORTNAME:S/-/_/}-${DISTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Simple package to extract text with coordinates from programmatic PDFs
 WWW=		https://github.com/docling-project/docling-parse
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pybind11>=2.13.6:devel/py-pybind11@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>=0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		cmake>=3.27.0:devel/cmake \
 		cxxopts>=3.3.1:devel/cxxopts \
 		loguru>=2.1.0:devel/loguru \
 		nlohmann-json>=3.12.0:devel/nlohmann-json \
 		utf8cpp>=4.1.1:devel/utf8cpp
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libblend2d.so:graphics/blend2d \
+			libfreetype.so:print/freetype2 \
 		libjpeg.so:graphics/jpeg-turbo \
 		liblcms2.so:graphics/lcms2 \
 		libopenjp2.so:graphics/openjpeg \
 		libqpdf.so:print/qpdf
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}docling-core>=2.85.0:textproc/py-docling-core@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pillow>=10.0.0:graphics/py-pillow@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pydantic2>=2.0.0:devel/py-pydantic2@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python localbase pkgconfig
 USE_PYTHON=	autoplist concurrent pep517
 
 MAKE_ENV=	USE_SYSTEM_DEPS=ON
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-docling-parse/distinfo b/textproc/py-docling-parse/distinfo
index 8e33e3e9de48..8e1c426bdfee 100644
--- a/textproc/py-docling-parse/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-docling-parse/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1783064431
-SHA256 (docling_parse-7.4.0.tar.gz) = 30297a61a8d09dc528adde853090fabe9d6b3f83de7e0a0ea6e9aafe01ec9b4a
-SIZE (docling_parse-7.4.0.tar.gz) = 6708979
+TIMESTAMP = 1783924207
+SHA256 (docling_parse-7.8.0.tar.gz) = af99bd764835a308078764d04b99c4eeec5b519a854e715cbf56d2ccb2560891
+SIZE (docling_parse-7.8.0.tar.gz) = 6754332