diff --git a/requirements/main.txt b/requirements/main.txt
index b2ebc357..e2429787 100644
--- a/requirements/main.txt
+++ b/requirements/main.txt
@@ -10,4 +10,3 @@ Pillow >= 5.0.0, != 5.1.0 ; sys_platform == "darwin"
 pycparser == 2.19
 python-xmp-toolkit == 2.0.1
 reportlab == 3.5.13
-ruffus == 2.8.1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 74aa1039..fcccc173 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -104,7 +104,6 @@ setup(
         # Pillow < 4 has BytesIO/TIFF bug w/img2pdf 0.2.3
         # block 5.1.0, broken wheels
         'reportlab >= 3.3.0',  # oldest released version with sane image handling
-        'ruffus >= 2.7.0',
     ],
     extras_require={'pdfminer': ['pdfminer.six == 20181108']},
     tests_require=tests_require,