diff --git a/src/documents/classifier.py b/src/documents/classifier.py
index b577997e3..47dd7dfc7 100755
--- a/src/documents/classifier.py
+++ b/src/documents/classifier.py
@@ -95,9 +95,6 @@ class DocumentClassifier(object):
             pickle.dump(self.document_type_classifier, f)
 
     def train(self):
-        from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
-        from sklearn.neural_network import MLPClassifier
-        from sklearn.preprocessing import MultiLabelBinarizer, LabelBinarizer
 
         data = list()
         labels_tags = list()
@@ -162,6 +159,10 @@ class DocumentClassifier(object):
             )
         )
 
+        from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
+        from sklearn.neural_network import MLPClassifier
+        from sklearn.preprocessing import MultiLabelBinarizer, LabelBinarizer
+
         # Step 2: vectorize data
         logger.debug("Vectorizing data...")
         self.data_vectorizer = CountVectorizer(