diff --git a/src/documents/classifier.py b/src/documents/classifier.py
index 72a01dbee..5711c34af 100644
--- a/src/documents/classifier.py
+++ b/src/documents/classifier.py
@@ -320,10 +320,9 @@ class DocumentClassifier:
         # Get only the letters (remove punctuation too)
         content = re.sub(r"[^\w\s]", " ", content)
         # Tokenize
-        # TODO configurable language
-        words: List[str] = word_tokenize(content, language="english")
+        words: List[str] = word_tokenize(content, language=settings.NLTK_LANGUAGE)
         # Remove stop words
-        stops = set(stopwords.words("english"))
+        stops = set(stopwords.words(settings.NLTK_LANGUAGE))
         meaningful_words = [w for w in words if w not in stops]
         # Stem words
         meaningful_words = [self.stemmer.stem(w) for w in meaningful_words]
diff --git a/src/paperless/settings.py b/src/paperless/settings.py
index 7c2e21d00..cdbfbbfba 100644
--- a/src/paperless/settings.py
+++ b/src/paperless/settings.py
@@ -708,3 +708,5 @@ if os.getenv("PAPERLESS_IGNORE_DATES") is not None:
 ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK", "default")
 if ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK != "default":
     ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK = __get_boolean("PAPERLESS_ENABLE_UPDATE_CHECK")
+
+NLTK_LANGUAGE = os.getenv("PAPERLESS_NLTK_LANG", "english").lower()