diff --git a/packages/markitdown-ocr/README.md b/packages/markitdown-ocr/README.md
index 8a87969a3..f5c0162c8 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown-ocr/README.md
+++ b/packages/markitdown-ocr/README.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Uses the same `llm_client` / `llm_model` pattern that MarkItDown already support
 
 ## Installation
 
-Requires `markitdown>=0.1.8b3`, which introduces the Office image-rendering hooks used by this plugin. Installing the plugin automatically resolves a compatible core version.
+Requires `markitdown>=0.1.8,<0.2.0`, which provides the Office image-rendering hooks used by this plugin. Installing the plugin automatically resolves a compatible core version.
 
 ```bash
 pip install markitdown-ocr
diff --git a/packages/markitdown-ocr/pyproject.toml b/packages/markitdown-ocr/pyproject.toml
index 96d97d8c1..8c8bedc3a 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown-ocr/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/markitdown-ocr/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ classifiers = [
 
 # Core dependencies — matches the file-format libraries markitdown already uses
 dependencies = [
-  "markitdown>=0.1.8b3",
+  "markitdown>=0.1.8,<0.2.0",
   "pdfminer.six>=20251230",
   "pdfplumber>=0.11.9",
   "PyMuPDF>=1.24.0",
diff --git a/packages/markitdown-ocr/src/markitdown_ocr/__about__.py b/packages/markitdown-ocr/src/markitdown_ocr/__about__.py
index 476b5e639..e611fd12b 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown-ocr/src/markitdown_ocr/__about__.py
+++ b/packages/markitdown-ocr/src/markitdown_ocr/__about__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025-present Contributors
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
 
-__version__ = "0.1.1b2"
+__version__ = "0.1.1"
diff --git a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/__about__.py b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/__about__.py
index 721f543f0..2de2dc8f4 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/__about__.py
+++ b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/__about__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024-present Adam Fourney <adamfo@microsoft.com>
 #
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
-__version__ = "0.1.8b3"
+__version__ = "0.1.8"