diff --git a/klausur-service/backend/requirements.txt b/klausur-service/backend/requirements.txt
index 7763f9f..92d063a 100644
--- a/klausur-service/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/klausur-service/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ opencv-python-headless>=4.8.0
 pytesseract>=0.3.10
 Pillow>=10.0.0
 
+# RapidOCR (PaddleOCR models on ONNX Runtime — works on ARM64 natively)
+rapidocr
+onnxruntime
+
 # PostgreSQL (for metrics storage)
 psycopg2-binary>=2.9.0
 asyncpg>=0.29.0