diff --git a/textproc/py-pdf2docx/Makefile b/textproc/py-pdf2docx/Makefile
index a4c178b84e4e..617c374d288e 100644
--- a/textproc/py-pdf2docx/Makefile
+++ b/textproc/py-pdf2docx/Makefile
@@ -1,30 +1,32 @@
 PORTNAME=	pdf2docx
-DISTVERSION=	0.5.8
-PORTREVISION=	4
+DISTVERSION=	0.5.13
 CATEGORIES=	textproc python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Library and applicaton to convert pdf to docx
 WWW=		https://github.com/dothinking/pdf2docx
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv3
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
-PY_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fire>=0.3.0:devel/py-fire@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}setuptools>=63.1.0:devel/py-setuptools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}wheel>0:devel/py-wheel@${PY_FLAVOR}
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fire>=0.3.0:devel/py-fire@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pymupdf>=1.19.0:print/py-PyMuPDF@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}fonttools>=4.24.0:print/py-fonttools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}numpy>=1.16:math/py-numpy@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}python-docx>=0.8.10:textproc/py-python-docx@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		opencv>0:graphics/opencv
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PY_DEPENDS} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}pip>0:devel/py-pip@${PY_FLAVOR}
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PY_DEPENDS}
 
 USES=		python
-USE_PYTHON=	distutils concurrent autoplist pytest # 2 tests fail, see https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/pdf2docx/issues/276
+USE_PYTHON=	pep517 concurrent autoplist pytest # ruff tests skipped, see https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/pdf2docx/issues/276
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
+MAKE_ENV+=	PDF2DOCX_VERSION=${DISTVERSION}
+
+# tests as of 0.5.13: 2 passed, 2 warnings in 24.16s
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/textproc/py-pdf2docx/distinfo b/textproc/py-pdf2docx/distinfo
index f04c46904bc3..f110472f5897 100644
--- a/textproc/py-pdf2docx/distinfo
+++ b/textproc/py-pdf2docx/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1710371234
-SHA256 (pdf2docx-0.5.8.tar.gz) = e723f639728193468602b69eade2fe62df5f5d339d2630228e325f4cc61c1918
-SIZE (pdf2docx-0.5.8.tar.gz) = 3566987
+TIMESTAMP = 1788718669
+SHA256 (pdf2docx-0.5.13.tar.gz) = 75eff485d4fdcd28237783a65c1bc5e9eaf9fbc747fcacee6c5c16c8ffa7a6a9
+SIZE (pdf2docx-0.5.13.tar.gz) = 18315032
diff --git a/textproc/py-pdf2docx/files/patch-setup.py b/textproc/py-pdf2docx/files/patch-setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2a648f83cad2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/textproc/py-pdf2docx/files/patch-setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+-- The sdist does not ship version.txt; setup.py then falls back to a stale
+-- 0.5.6a1 version.  Use an environment variable supplied by the port so the
+-- produced wheel matches DISTVERSION.
+
+--- setup.py.orig	2026-05-01 03:54:00 UTC
++++ setup.py
+@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
+ setup(
+     name="pdf2docx",
+-    version=get_version("version.txt"),
++    version=os.environ.get("PDF2DOCX_VERSION", get_version("version.txt")),
+     keywords=["pdf-to-word", "pdf-to-docx"],
+     description=DESCRIPTION,
+     long_description=load_long_description("README.md"),