diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a05c137f..40c1c336 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 0.2.3
+
+* Pins the version of `opencv-python` for linux compatibility
+
 ## 0.2.2
 
 * Add capability to process image files
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 21e3e47d..4d6d9557 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ install-dev:
 ## pip-compile:             compiles all base/dev/test requirements
 .PHONY: pip-compile
 pip-compile:
-	pip-compile requirements/base.in
+	pip-compile -o requirements/base.txt
 	# NOTE(robinson) - We want the dependencies for detectron2 in the requirements.txt, but not
 	# the detectron2 repo itself. If detectron2 is in the requirements.txt file, an order of
 	# operations issue related to the torch library causes the install to fail
diff --git a/requirements/base.in b/requirements/base.in
deleted file mode 100644
index 15e00dc0..00000000
--- a/requirements/base.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-fastapi
-layoutparser[layoutmodels,tesseract]
-python-multipart
-uvicorn
-huggingface-hub
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 16604ed5..5b58622b 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with python 3.8
-# To update, run:
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.8
+# by the following command:
 #
-#    pip-compile requirements/base.in
+#    pip-compile --output-file=requirements/base.txt
 #
 antlr4-python3-runtime==4.9.3
     # via omegaconf
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ cycler==0.11.0
 effdet==0.3.0
     # via layoutparser
 fastapi==0.85.1
-    # via -r requirements/base.in
+    # via unstructured-inference (setup.py)
 filelock==3.8.0
     # via huggingface-hub
 fonttools==4.37.4
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ h11==0.14.0
     # via uvicorn
 huggingface-hub==0.10.1
     # via
-    #   -r requirements/base.in
     #   timm
+    #   unstructured-inference (setup.py)
 idna==3.4
     # via
     #   anyio
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ iopath==0.1.10
 kiwisolver==1.4.4
     # via matplotlib
 layoutparser[layoutmodels,tesseract]==0.3.4
-    # via -r requirements/base.in
+    # via unstructured-inference (setup.py)
 matplotlib==3.6.1
     # via pycocotools
 numpy==1.23.4
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ numpy==1.23.4
 omegaconf==2.2.3
     # via effdet
 opencv-python==4.6.0.66
-    # via layoutparser
+    # via
+    #   layoutparser
+    #   unstructured-inference (setup.py)
 packaging==21.3
     # via
     #   huggingface-hub
@@ -104,7 +106,7 @@ python-dateutil==2.8.2
     #   matplotlib
     #   pandas
 python-multipart==0.0.5
-    # via -r requirements/base.in
+    # via unstructured-inference (setup.py)
 pytz==2022.5
     # via pandas
 pyyaml==6.0
@@ -155,6 +157,6 @@ typing-extensions==4.4.0
 urllib3==1.26.12
     # via requests
 uvicorn==0.19.0
-    # via -r requirements/base.in
+    # via unstructured-inference (setup.py)
 wand==0.6.10
     # via pdfplumber
diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index 3dabf4c2..0a14a372 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,15 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with python 3.8
-# To update, run:
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.8
+# by the following command:
 #
 #    pip-compile requirements/dev.in
 #
 anyio==3.6.1
     # via jupyter-server
+appnope==0.1.3
+    # via
+    #   ipykernel
+    #   ipython
 argon2-cffi==21.3.0
     # via
     #   jupyter-server
@@ -43,6 +47,10 @@ fastjsonschema==2.16.2
     # via nbformat
 idna==3.4
     # via anyio
+importlib-metadata==6.0.0
+    # via nbconvert
+importlib-resources==5.10.2
+    # via jsonschema
 ipykernel==6.16.0
     # via
     #   ipywidgets
@@ -53,7 +61,7 @@ ipykernel==6.16.0
     #   qtconsole
 ipython==8.8.0
     # via
-    #   -r dev.in
+    #   -r requirements/dev.in
     #   ipykernel
     #   ipywidgets
     #   jupyter-console
@@ -75,7 +83,7 @@ jinja2==3.1.2
 jsonschema==4.16.0
     # via nbformat
 jupyter==1.0.0
-    # via -r dev.in
+    # via -r requirements/dev.in
 jupyter-client==7.4.2
     # via
     #   ipykernel
@@ -160,7 +168,9 @@ pexpect==4.8.0
 pickleshare==0.7.5
     # via ipython
 pip-tools==6.12.1
-    # via -r dev.in
+    # via -r requirements/dev.in
+pkgutil-resolve-name==1.3.10
+    # via jsonschema
 prometheus-client==0.15.0
     # via
     #   jupyter-server
@@ -227,6 +237,10 @@ terminado==0.16.0
     #   notebook
 tinycss2==1.2.1
     # via nbconvert
+tomli==2.0.1
+    # via
+    #   build
+    #   pep517
 tornado==6.2
     # via
     #   ipykernel
@@ -262,6 +276,10 @@ wheel==0.37.1
     # via pip-tools
 widgetsnbextension==4.0.3
     # via ipywidgets
+zipp==3.11.0
+    # via
+    #   importlib-metadata
+    #   importlib-resources
 
 # The following packages are considered to be unsafe in a requirements file:
 # pip
diff --git a/requirements/test.txt b/requirements/test.txt
index 46ec8729..231dbc84 100644
--- a/requirements/test.txt
+++ b/requirements/test.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with python 3.8
-# To update, run:
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with Python 3.8
+# by the following command:
 #
 #    pip-compile requirements/test.in
 #
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index f06eda71..fbf405dd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@
         "python-multipart",
         "uvicorn",
         "huggingface-hub",
+        # NOTE(robinson) - later versions of opencv-python cause installation issues
+        # on RHEL7. We can remove this pin once the following issue from 12/2022 is resolved
+        # ref: https://github.com/opencv/opencv-python/issues/772
+        "opencv-python==4.6.0.66",
     ],
     extras_require={},
 )
diff --git a/unstructured_inference/__version__.py b/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
index 8848c493..1cc734ad 100644
--- a/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.2.2"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.2.3"  # pragma: no cover