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 # Fast MRZ
 
 ![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-AGPL%203.0-34D058?color=blue)
-![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/badge/fastmrz)
+[![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/badge/fastmrz)](https://pypistats.org/packages/fastmrz)
 ![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.8%20%7C%203.9%20%7C%203.10%20%7C%203.11%20%7C%203.12-blue?logo=python&logoColor=959DA5)
 [![CodeQL](https://github.com/sivakumar-mahalingam/fastmrz/actions/workflows/codeql.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sivakumar-mahalingam/fastmrz/actions/workflows/codeql.yml)
 [![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/fastmrz.svg?logo=pypi&logoColor=959DA5&color=blue)](https://pypi.org/project/fastmrz/)