diff --git a/api/Dockerfile b/api/Dockerfile
index a08d4e3aab..7e0a439954 100644
--- a/api/Dockerfile
+++ b/api/Dockerfile
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ ENV PATH="${VIRTUAL_ENV}/bin:${PATH}"
 
 # Download nltk data
 RUN mkdir -p /usr/local/share/nltk_data \
-    && NLTK_DATA=/usr/local/share/nltk_data python -c "import nltk; from unstructured.nlp.tokenize import download_nltk_packages; nltk.download('punkt'); nltk.download('averaged_perceptron_tagger'); nltk.download('stopwords'); download_nltk_packages()" \
+    && NLTK_DATA=/usr/local/share/nltk_data python -c "import nltk; nltk.download('punkt'); nltk.download('averaged_perceptron_tagger'); nltk.download('stopwords')" \
     && chmod -R 755 /usr/local/share/nltk_data
 
 ENV TIKTOKEN_CACHE_DIR=/app/api/.tiktoken_cache