diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a6291de0..373ea554 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -69,8 +69,6 @@ def walk_and_add(d, pkg_files):
         "aiosqlite",
         "oyaml",
         "intervaltree",
-        "xlsxwriter",
-        "openpyxl",
         "twobitreader",
         "nest-asyncio",
         "psutil",
@@ -78,7 +76,6 @@ def walk_and_add(d, pkg_files):
         "python-dateutil",
         "download",
         "gdown",
-        "Pillow",
     ],
     python_requires=">=3.8",
     package_data={"oakvar": oakvar_files, "cravat": cravat_files},