diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 1ba752d..97c2e98 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ services:
       EMBEDDING_BACKEND: ${EMBEDDING_BACKEND:-local}
       LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL: ${LOCAL_EMBEDDING_MODEL:-BAAI/bge-m3}
       LOCAL_RERANKER_MODEL: ${LOCAL_RERANKER_MODEL:-cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2}
-      PDF_EXTRACTION_BACKEND: ${PDF_EXTRACTION_BACKEND:-pymupdf}
+      PDF_EXTRACTION_BACKEND: ${PDF_EXTRACTION_BACKEND:-auto}
       OPENAI_API_KEY: ${OPENAI_API_KEY:-}
       COHERE_API_KEY: ${COHERE_API_KEY:-}
       LOG_LEVEL: ${LOG_LEVEL:-INFO}