diff --git a/office/pdf2djvu/README b/office/pdf2djvu/README
index e5aa356049..3ff811e6eb 100644
--- a/office/pdf2djvu/README
+++ b/office/pdf2djvu/README
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@ It's able to extract:
  * hyperlinks
  * document outline (bookmarks)
  * metadata (including XMP metadata)
+
+Note:  nose is only required to run the python test suite.  It is not a
+run-time dependency and can be safely removed after pdf2djvu is built.
diff --git a/office/pdf2djvu/pdf2djvu.SlackBuild b/office/pdf2djvu/pdf2djvu.SlackBuild
index 4695b36eb7..b25bbbe7f2 100644
--- a/office/pdf2djvu/pdf2djvu.SlackBuild
+++ b/office/pdf2djvu/pdf2djvu.SlackBuild
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Slackware build script for pdf2djvu
 
 # Copyright 2010-2012  Binh Nguyen <binhvng@gmail.com>
-# Copyright 2015-2017 Brenton Earl <brent@exitstatusone.com>
+# Copyright 2015-2018 Brenton Earl <brent@exitstatusone.com>
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=pdf2djvu
-VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.7}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.9.8}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/office/pdf2djvu/pdf2djvu.info b/office/pdf2djvu/pdf2djvu.info
index 23c612180c..4f91529ada 100644
--- a/office/pdf2djvu/pdf2djvu.info
+++ b/office/pdf2djvu/pdf2djvu.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="pdf2djvu"
-VERSION="0.9.7"
+VERSION="0.9.8"
 HOMEPAGE="http://jwilk.net/software/pdf2djvu"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/jwilk/pdf2djvu/releases/download/0.9.7/pdf2djvu-0.9.7.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="e7eb7a856d52f3d7f9d884216303a07a"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/jwilk/pdf2djvu/releases/download/0.9.8/pdf2djvu-0.9.8.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="ccea955e536fada8f6119507cebc95f1"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="nose GraphicsMagick"