diff --git a/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml b/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml
index f387151..0d9ddbf 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/markitdown/pyproject.toml
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ dependencies = [
   "charset-normalizer",
   "openai",
   "ebooklib",
-  "html2text",
   "azure-ai-documentintelligence",
   "azure-identity"
 ]
diff --git a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_epub_converter.py b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_epub_converter.py
index 0cd32db..a9fe7f7 100644
--- a/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_epub_converter.py
+++ b/packages/markitdown/src/markitdown/converters/_epub_converter.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# type: ignore
 from typing import Any
 
 from ebooklib import epub, ITEM_DOCUMENT