diff --git a/dist/pdf-parse/esm/PDFParse.js b/dist/pdf-parse/esm/PDFParse.js
index c7db69f699ac425e7fab7c2bb35422270e6b9699..36ea71b340258ba1101dee46fb2bf1822b64ccfa 100644
--- a/dist/pdf-parse/esm/PDFParse.js
+++ b/dist/pdf-parse/esm/PDFParse.js
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ export class PDFParse {
     }
     async destroy() {
         if (this.doc) {
-            await this.doc.destroy();
+            // pdfjs-dist 6 removed PDFDocumentProxy.destroy(); destroy the loading task instead.
+            await this.doc.loadingTask.destroy();
             this.doc = undefined;
         }
     }