diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 59ad719..2020d69 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ repositories {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.12.0'
+    implementation 'org.apache.commons:commons-text:1.9'
     implementation 'org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on:1.71'
 }
 
diff --git a/ivy.xml b/ivy.xml
index 7682148..50f03a5 100644
--- a/ivy.xml
+++ b/ivy.xml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   </configurations>
   <dependencies>
     <dependency org="org.bouncycastle" name="bcprov-jdk18on" rev="1.71"/>
-    <dependency org="org.apache.commons" name="commons-lang3" rev="3.12.0"/>
+    <dependency org="org.apache.commons" name="commons-text" rev="1.9"/>
     <dependency org="junit" name="junit" rev="4.12" conf="test"/>
     <dependency org="com.github.stefanbirkner" name="system-rules" rev="1.19.0" conf="test"/>
     <dependency org="org.jacoco" name="org.jacoco.ant" rev="0.8.4" conf="test"/>
diff --git a/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/TK_Session.java b/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/TK_Session.java
index 8248743..3753b4f 100644
--- a/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/TK_Session.java
+++ b/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/TK_Session.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
-import org.apache.commons.lang3.text.WordUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.text.WordUtils;
 
 class TK_Session {
 
diff --git a/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/data_import.java b/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/data_import.java
index c2fb639..01af277 100644
--- a/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/data_import.java
+++ b/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/data_import.java
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Scanner;
-import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;
 
 class data_import {
 
diff --git a/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/pdftk.java b/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/pdftk.java
index fdffdc5..489d49f 100644
--- a/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/pdftk.java
+++ b/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/pdftk.java
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ public class pdftk {
   static void describe_missing_library(Throwable error) {
     System.err.println("Error: could not load a required library for this operation.");
     System.err.println(error);
-    System.err.println("Make sure that bcprov and commons-lang3 are installed and included in the");
+    System.err.println("Make sure that bcprov and commons-text are installed and included in the");
     System.err.println("classpath. See also https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk/issues/2.");
   }
 }
diff --git a/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/report.java b/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/report.java
index 182f05a..5c9ad94 100644
--- a/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/report.java
+++ b/java/com/gitlab/pdftk_java/report.java
@@ -41,9 +41,9 @@ import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
-import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils;
-import org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.CharSequenceTranslator;
-import org.apache.commons.lang3.text.translate.NumericEntityEscaper;
+import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.text.translate.CharSequenceTranslator;
+import org.apache.commons.text.translate.NumericEntityEscaper;
 
 class report {
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 19b9f04..621f520 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-      <version>3.12.0</version>
+      <artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>
+      <version>1.9</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>