diff --git a/fedot/core/operations/evaluation/operation_implementations/data_operations/text_preprocessing.py b/fedot/core/operations/evaluation/operation_implementations/data_operations/text_preprocessing.py
index 61a1da537d..929bfe5897 100644
--- a/fedot/core/operations/evaluation/operation_implementations/data_operations/text_preprocessing.py
+++ b/fedot/core/operations/evaluation/operation_implementations/data_operations/text_preprocessing.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ def transform(self, input_data: InputData) -> OutputData:
 
     @staticmethod
     def _download_nltk_resources():
-        for resource in ['punkt', 'punkt_tab']:
+        for resource in ['punkt']:
             try:
                 nltk.data.find(f'tokenizers/{resource}')
             except LookupError: