diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 98d395ec..e2342651 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ setup(
         'Pillow >= 8.1.2',
         'pluggy >= 0.13.0, < 1.0',
         'reportlab >= 3.5.66',
+        'setuptools',
         'tqdm >= 4',
     ],
     tests_require=tests_require,