# We remove the `canvas` optional dependency because electron-rebuild fails to build it, and
# the `canvas` API is already part of Electron
diff --git a/build/pdf.js b/build/pdf.js
index 4acf16b1d6f9351bda1a98649ea4f926618fe617..f63dbc6050ca63ca8e8ed982edea134103fa15dd 100644
--- a/build/pdf.js
+++ b/build/pdf.js
@@ -6244,8 +6244,9 @@ class NodeFilterFactory extends _base_factory.BaseFilterFactory {}
 exports.NodeFilterFactory = NodeFilterFactory;
 class NodeCanvasFactory extends _base_factory.BaseCanvasFactory {
   _createCanvas(width, height) {
-    const Canvas = require("canvas");
-    return Canvas.createCanvas(width, height);
+    throw new Error('Node canvas disabled');
+    // const Canvas = require("canvas");
+    // return Canvas.createCanvas(width, height);
   }
 }
 exports.NodeCanvasFactory = NodeCanvasFactory;
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 105811f53d508486e08a60dc1b6e437cd24d7427..dea6a4e6612c4a4006cc482e46ff5270dcfda1e5 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
   "bugs": "https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "optionalDependencies": {
-    "canvas": "^2.11.2",
     "path2d-polyfill": "^2.0.1"
   },
   "browser": {