# We remove the `canvas` optional dependency because electron-rebuild fails to build it, and
# the `canvas` API is already part of Electron
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 105811f53d508486e08a60dc1b6e437cd24d7427..dea6a4e6612c4a4006cc482e46ff5270dcfda1e5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
   "bugs": "https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "optionalDependencies": {
-    "canvas": "^2.11.2",
     "path2d-polyfill": "^2.0.1"
   },
   "browser": {