diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index b2506501..e03479fd 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ checksum = "60b1af1c220855b6ceac025d3f6ecdd2b7c4894bfe9cd9bda4fbb4bc7c0d4cf0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "embed_anything"
-version = "0.4.13"
+version = "0.4.18"
 dependencies = [
  "accelerate-src",
  "anyhow",
@@ -995,7 +995,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "intel-mkl-src",
  "itertools 0.13.0",
  "lazy_static",
- "markdown-parser",
  "markdown_to_text",
  "ndarray 0.16.1",
  "ndarray-linalg",
@@ -1026,7 +1025,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "embed_anything_python"
-version = "0.4.17"
+version = "0.4.18"
 dependencies = [
  "embed_anything",
  "pyo3",
@@ -1126,26 +1125,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.90",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "enum-iterator"
-version = "0.6.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c79a6321a1197d7730510c7e3f6cb80432dfefecb32426de8cea0aa19b4bb8d7"
-dependencies = [
- "enum-iterator-derive",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "enum-iterator-derive"
-version = "0.6.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1e94aa31f7c0dc764f57896dc615ddd76fc13b0d5dca7eb6cc5e018a5a09ec06"
-dependencies = [
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "syn 1.0.109",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "equivalent"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -1614,7 +1593,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-core",
  "futures-sink",
  "http",
- "indexmap 2.6.0",
+ "indexmap",
  "slab",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util",
@@ -1669,12 +1648,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "ahash 0.7.8",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "hashbrown"
-version = "0.12.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8a9ee70c43aaf417c914396645a0fa852624801b24ebb7ae78fe8272889ac888"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "hashbrown"
 version = "0.15.2"
@@ -2054,16 +2027,6 @@ version = "1.11.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d0263a3d970d5c054ed9312c0057b4f3bde9c0b33836d3637361d4a9e6e7a408"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "indexmap"
-version = "1.9.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "bd070e393353796e801d209ad339e89596eb4c8d430d18ede6a1cced8fafbd99"
-dependencies = [
- "autocfg 1.4.0",
- "hashbrown 0.12.3",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "indexmap"
 version = "2.6.0"
@@ -2390,24 +2353,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "markdown-parser"
-version = "0.1.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "cf523952b36c9ad1a650d608d38187f12f4ad1b9e402a8c9df79743989289def"
-dependencies = [
- "enum-iterator",
- "enum-iterator-derive",
- "getset",
- "lazy_static",
- "quick-error",
- "regex",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
- "serde_yaml",
- "toml 0.5.11",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "markdown_to_text"
 version = "1.0.0"
@@ -2918,7 +2863,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "sha2",
  "tar",
  "thiserror",
- "toml 0.8.19",
+ "toml",
  "ureq",
  "url",
  "uuid",
@@ -4110,18 +4055,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "serde_yaml"
-version = "0.8.26"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "578a7433b776b56a35785ed5ce9a7e777ac0598aac5a6dd1b4b18a307c7fc71b"
-dependencies = [
- "indexmap 1.9.3",
- "ryu",
- "serde",
- "yaml-rust",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "servo_arc"
 version = "0.3.0"
@@ -4608,7 +4541,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-expr",
  "heck",
  "pkg-config",
- "toml 0.8.19",
+ "toml",
  "version-compare",
 ]
 
@@ -4887,15 +4820,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "toml"
-version = "0.5.11"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f4f7f0dd8d50a853a531c426359045b1998f04219d88799810762cd4ad314234"
-dependencies = [
- "serde",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
 version = "0.8.19"
@@ -4923,7 +4847,7 @@ version = "0.22.22"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "4ae48d6208a266e853d946088ed816055e556cc6028c5e8e2b84d9fa5dd7c7f5"
 dependencies = [
- "indexmap 2.6.0",
+ "indexmap",
  "serde",
  "serde_spanned",
  "toml_datetime",
@@ -5636,15 +5560,6 @@ version = "0.13.6"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "66fee0b777b0f5ac1c69bb06d361268faafa61cd4682ae064a171c16c433e9e4"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "yaml-rust"
-version = "0.4.5"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "56c1936c4cc7a1c9ab21a1ebb602eb942ba868cbd44a99cb7cdc5892335e1c85"
-dependencies = [
- "linked-hash-map",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "yoke"
 version = "0.7.5"
@@ -5750,7 +5665,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "crossbeam-utils",
  "displaydoc",
  "flate2",
- "indexmap 2.6.0",
+ "indexmap",
  "num_enum",
  "thiserror",
 ]
diff --git a/rust/Cargo.toml b/rust/Cargo.toml
index 3c1e59b3..c3598d43 100644
--- a/rust/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "embed_anything"
-version = "0.4.13"
+version = "0.4.18"
 edition.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
 description.workspace = true
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@ tokio = { version = "1.40.0", features = ["macros", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 
 
 # Markdown Processing
-markdown-parser = "0.1.2"
 markdown_to_text = "1.0.0"
 
 # Web Scraping
diff --git a/rust/src/file_processor/markdown_processor.rs b/rust/src/file_processor/markdown_processor.rs
index b68a73dd..6b36f623 100644
--- a/rust/src/file_processor/markdown_processor.rs
+++ b/rust/src/file_processor/markdown_processor.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 use anyhow::Error;
-use markdown_parser::read_file;
 
 /// A struct that provides functionality to process Markdown files.
 pub struct MarkdownProcessor;
@@ -16,9 +15,9 @@ impl MarkdownProcessor {
     /// Returns a `Result` containing the extracted text content as a `String` if successful,
     /// or an `Error` if an error occurred while reading the file or converting the Markdown.
     pub fn extract_text<T: AsRef<std::path::Path>>(file_path: &T) -> Result<String, Error> {
-        let md = read_file(file_path)?;
-        let content = md.content();
-        let content = markdown_to_text::convert(content);
+        let bytes = std::fs::read(file_path)?;
+        let out = String::from_utf8_lossy(&bytes).to_string();
+        let content = markdown_to_text::convert(&out);
         Ok(content)
     }
 }