diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 109eeba..81ab646 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -181,6 +181,29 @@ dependencies = [
  "vec_map",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "clap"
+version = "4.0.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0a1af219c3e254a8b4649d6ddaef886b2015089f35f2ac5e1db31410c0566ab8"
+dependencies = [
+ "atty",
+ "bitflags",
+ "clap_lex",
+ "once_cell",
+ "strsim 0.10.0",
+ "termcolor",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "clap_lex"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0d4198f73e42b4936b35b5bb248d81d2b595ecb170da0bac7655c54eedfa8da8"
+dependencies = [
+ "os_str_bytes",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "clearscreen"
 version = "1.0.10"
@@ -881,7 +904,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "md2pdf"
 version = "0.0.1"
 dependencies = [
- "clap",
+ "clap 4.0.7",
  "pulldown-cmark",
  "tectonic",
 ]
@@ -1144,6 +1167,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "vcpkg",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "os_str_bytes"
+version = "6.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9ff7415e9ae3fff1225851df9e0d9e4e5479f947619774677a63572e55e80eff"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pathdiff"
 version = "0.2.1"
@@ -1559,7 +1588,7 @@ version = "0.3.26"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0c6b5c64445ba8094a6ab0c3cd2ad323e07171012d9c98b0b15651daf1787a10"
 dependencies = [
- "clap",
+ "clap 2.34.0",
  "lazy_static",
  "structopt-derive",
 ]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 17f0dd4..de3ece2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ cargo = "1.64"
 [dependencies]
 tectonic = "0.5.2"
 pulldown-cmark = "0.5.3"
-clap = "2.34.0"
+clap = { version = "4.0.7", features = ["cargo"] }
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index c1d40c7..ce1e25c 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use std::fs::File;
 use std::io::{Read, Write};
 use std::process::exit;
 
-use clap::{crate_authors, crate_description, crate_name, crate_version, App, Arg};
+use clap::{crate_authors, crate_description, crate_name, crate_version, Command, Arg};
 
 use md2pdf::{markdown_to_latex, markdown_to_pdf};
 
@@ -20,30 +20,33 @@ macro_rules! unwrap {
 
 fn main() {
 
-    let matches = App::new(crate_name!())
+    let matches = Command::new(crate_name!())
         .bin_name(crate_name!())
         .version(crate_version!())
         .author(crate_authors!("\n"))
         .about(crate_description!())
-        .arg(Arg::with_name("INPUT")
+        .arg(Arg::new("INPUT")
              .long("input")
-             .short("i")
+             .short('i')
              .help("Input markdown files")
              .required(true)
-             .takes_value(true))
-        .arg(Arg::with_name("OUTPUT")
+             .value_parser(clap::value_parser!(std::path::PathBuf))
+            )
+        .arg(Arg::new("OUTPUT")
              .long("output")
-             .short("o")
+             .short('o')
              .help("Output tex or pdf file")
              .required(true)
-             .takes_value(true))
+             .value_parser(clap::value_parser!(std::path::PathBuf))
+            )
         .get_matches();
 
+    let input_path = matches.get_one::<std::path::PathBuf>("INPUT").unwrap();
     let mut content = String::new();
-    let mut input = unwrap!(File::open(matches.value_of("INPUT").unwrap()), "couldn't open input file");
+    let mut input = unwrap!(File::open(input_path), "couldn't open input file");
     unwrap!(input.read_to_string(&mut content), "couldn't read file content");
 
-    let output_path = matches.value_of("OUTPUT").unwrap();
+    let output_path = matches.get_one::<std::path::PathBuf>("OUTPUT").unwrap();
     let mut output = unwrap!(File::create(output_path), "couldn't open output file");
 
     if output_path.ends_with(".tex") {
@@ -53,7 +56,7 @@ fn main() {
         let data = unwrap!(markdown_to_pdf(content), "error while compiling latex, this is most likely a bug");
         unwrap!(output.write(&data), "coudln't write output file");
     } else {
-        eprintln!("unknown file format for output: {}", output_path);
+        eprintln!("unknown file format for output: {}", output_path.display());
         exit(1);
     }