diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
index f64c2b88..0f96a56e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yaml
@@ -6,43 +6,43 @@ on:
     tags: '*'
   pull_request:
 
+env:
+  PYTHON_LATEST_TAG: py313
+  PYTHON_LATEST_VER: 3.13
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
-  tests:
-    if: "!contains(github.event.head_commit.message, '[skip ci]')"
-    name: ${{ matrix.name }}
-    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+  tox:
+    name: ${{ matrix.env }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
-      fail-fast: true
       matrix:
-        include:
-          - {name: '3.12', python: '3.12', os: ubuntu-latest, tox: py312}
-          - {name: '3.11', python: '3.11', os: ubuntu-latest, tox: py311}
-          - {name: '3.10', python: '3.10', os: ubuntu-latest, tox: py310}
-          - {name: '3.9', python: '3.9', os: ubuntu-latest, tox: py39}
-          - {name: '3.8', python: '3.8', os: ubuntu-latest, tox: py38}
+        env: [py39, py310, py311, py312, py313]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Setup Python
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
-        with:
-          python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
-          cache: 'pip'
-
-      - name: Upgrade bootstrap packages
-        run: python -m pip install --upgrade pip tox
-
-      - name: Install tesseract
-        run: sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-fra
-
-      - name: Print tesseract version
-        run: echo $(tesseract --version)
-
-      - name: Run tox
-        run: tox -e ${{ matrix.tox }}
-        env:
-          PY_COLORS: 1
-          TOX_TESTENV_PASSENV: PY_COLORS
-
-      - name: Test pytesseract package installation
-        run: pip install -U . && pip show pytesseract && python -c 'import pytesseract'
+    - uses: asottile/workflows/.github/actions/fast-checkout@v1.8.0
+      with:
+        submodules: false
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      with:
+        python-version: |
+          ${{
+            (matrix.env == 'py39' || startsWith(matrix.env, 'py39-')) && '3.9' ||
+            (matrix.env == 'py310' || startsWith(matrix.env, 'py310-')) && '3.10' ||
+            (matrix.env == 'py311' || startsWith(matrix.env, 'py311-')) && '3.11' ||
+            (matrix.env == 'py312' || startsWith(matrix.env, 'py312-')) && '3.12' ||
+            (matrix.env == env.PYTHON_LATEST_TAG) && env.PYTHON_LATEST_VER
+          }}
+    - name: Install tesseract
+      run: sudo apt-get -y update && sudo apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-fra
+    - name: Print tesseract version
+      run: echo $(tesseract --version)
+    - name: Update tools
+      run: python -mpip install --upgrade setuptools tox virtualenv
+    - name: Run tox
+      run: tox -e ${{ matrix.env != env.PYTHON_LATEST_TAG && matrix.env || 'pandas' }}
+    - name: Test pytesseract package installation
+      if: ${{ matrix.env == env.PYTHON_LATEST_TAG }}
+      run: python -mpip install -U . && python -mpip show pytesseract && python -c 'import pytesseract'
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diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 4f9f1471..6f6002c7 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -10,38 +10,38 @@ repos:
     hooks:
     -   id: trailing-whitespace
     -   id: end-of-file-fixer
-    -   id: check-docstring-first
     -   id: check-yaml
     -   id: debug-statements
+    -   id: double-quote-string-fixer
     -   id: name-tests-test
     -   id: requirements-txt-fixer
-    -   id: double-quote-string-fixer
--   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
-    rev: 7.1.1
-    hooks:
-    -   id: flake8
--   repo: https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8
-    rev: v2.3.1
+    -   id: check-docstring-first
+-   repo: https://github.com/asottile/setup-cfg-fmt
+    rev: v2.7.0
     hooks:
-    -   id: autopep8
+    -   id: setup-cfg-fmt
 -   repo: https://github.com/asottile/reorder-python-imports
     rev: v3.14.0
     hooks:
     -   id: reorder-python-imports
-        args: [--py37-plus]
+        args: [--py39-plus, --add-import, 'from __future__ import annotations']
+-   repo: https://github.com/asottile/add-trailing-comma
+    rev: v3.1.0
+    hooks:
+    -   id: add-trailing-comma
 -   repo: https://github.com/asottile/pyupgrade
     rev: v3.19.0
     hooks:
     -   id: pyupgrade
-        args: [--py37-plus]
--   repo: https://github.com/asottile/add-trailing-comma
-    rev: v3.1.0
+        args: [--py39-plus]
+-   repo: https://github.com/hhatto/autopep8
+    rev: v2.3.1
     hooks:
-    -   id: add-trailing-comma
-# -   repo: https://github.com/asottile/setup-cfg-fmt
-#     rev: v1.16.0
-#     hooks:
-#     -   id: setup-cfg-fmt
+    -   id: autopep8
+-   repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/flake8
+    rev: 7.1.1
+    hooks:
+    -   id: flake8
 -   repo: local
     hooks:
     -   id: rst
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 74f860f7..00000000
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-[build-system]
-requires = [
-    "setuptools >= 40.0.4",
-    "wheel >= 0.29.0",
-]
diff --git a/pytesseract/__init__.py b/pytesseract/__init__.py
index 40164fa9..403bed4f 100644
--- a/pytesseract/__init__.py
+++ b/pytesseract/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 # flake8: noqa: F401
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 from .pytesseract import ALTONotSupported
 from .pytesseract import get_languages
 from .pytesseract import get_tesseract_version
@@ -16,4 +18,4 @@
 from .pytesseract import TSVNotSupported
 
 
-__version__ = '0.3.13'
+__version__ = '0.3.14'
diff --git a/pytesseract/pytesseract.py b/pytesseract/pytesseract.py
index 37837f4c..cf487571 100644
--- a/pytesseract/pytesseract.py
+++ b/pytesseract/pytesseract.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 import logging
 import re
 import shlex
@@ -20,8 +22,6 @@
 from os.path import realpath
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 from time import sleep
-from typing import List
-from typing import Optional
 
 from packaging.version import InvalidVersion
 from packaging.version import parse
@@ -293,8 +293,8 @@ def _read_output(filename: str, return_bytes: bool = False):
 
 def run_and_get_multiple_output(
     image,
-    extensions: List[str],
-    lang: Optional[str] = None,
+    extensions: list[str],
+    lang: str | None = None,
     nice: int = 0,
     timeout: int = 0,
     return_bytes: bool = False,
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 7145d1e1..16167f54 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,43 +1,37 @@
 [metadata]
 name = pytesseract
 version = attr: pytesseract.__version__
-author = Samuel Hoffstaetter
-author_email = samuel@hoffstaetter.com
-maintainer = Matthias Lee
-maintainer_email = pytesseract@madmaze.net
 description = Python-tesseract is a python wrapper for Google's Tesseract-OCR
 long_description = file: README.rst
 long_description_content_type = text/x-rst
-license = Apache License 2.0
-license_file = LICENSE
-keywords = python-tesseract OCR Python
 url = https://github.com/madmaze/pytesseract
+author = Samuel Hoffstaetter
+author_email = samuel@hoffstaetter.com
+maintainer = Matthias Lee
+maintainer_email = pytesseract@madmaze.net
+license = Apache-2.0
+license_files = LICENSE
 classifiers =
     License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3
     Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
-    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
-    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
-    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
-    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
-    Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
     Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPython
     Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy
+keywords = python-tesseract OCR Python
 
 [options]
 packages = find:
-include_package_data = True
 install_requires =
-    packaging>=21.3
     Pillow>=8.0.0
-
-python_requires = >=3.8
-
-[options.entry_points]
-console_scripts =
-    pytesseract = pytesseract.pytesseract:main
+    packaging>=21.3
+python_requires = >=3.9
+include_package_data = True
 
 [options.packages.find]
 exclude =
     tests*
     testing*
+
+[options.entry_points]
+console_scripts =
+    pytesseract = pytesseract.pytesseract:main
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b024da80..536cf178 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 from setuptools import setup
 
 
diff --git a/tests/pytesseract_test.py b/tests/pytesseract_test.py
index 52efa2dd..0afaa6e1 100644
--- a/tests/pytesseract_test.py
+++ b/tests/pytesseract_test.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 from functools import partial
 from glob import iglob
 from multiprocessing import Pool
@@ -293,7 +295,7 @@ def test_image_to_alto_xml_support(test_file):
     TESSERACT_VERSION[:2] >= (3, 5),
     reason='requires tesseract < 3.05',
 )
-def test_image_to_data__pandas_support(test_file_small):
+def test_image_to_data_pandas_support(test_file_small):
     with pytest.raises(TSVNotSupported):
         image_to_data(test_file_small, output_type=Output.DATAFRAME)
 
@@ -303,7 +305,7 @@ def test_image_to_data__pandas_support(test_file_small):
     reason='requires tesseract >= 3.05',
 )
 @pytest.mark.skipif(pandas_installed is False, reason='requires pandas')
-def test_image_to_data__pandas_output(test_file_small):
+def test_image_to_data_pandas_output(test_file_small):
     """Test and compare the type and meta information of the result."""
     result = image_to_data(test_file_small, output_type=Output.DATAFRAME)
     assert isinstance(result, pandas.DataFrame)
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 6be7d2ce..23884234 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [tox]
-envlist = py, py-slow
+envlist = py, pandas
 
 [pytest]
 addopts = --strict-markers --verbose --cache-clear --color=yes -p no:doctest
@@ -10,13 +10,15 @@ markers =
 [testenv]
 deps =
     -r{toxinidir}/requirements-dev.txt
+passenv = *
 commands =
     python -bb -m pytest {posargs:tests}
 
-[testenv:py-slow]
+[testenv:pandas]
 deps =
     numpy
     pandas
     -r{toxinidir}/requirements-dev.txt
+passenv = *
 commands =
     python -bb -m pytest {posargs:tests}