diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index aa0bbf6f04..1608a24afe 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir uv && \
     python -c "import os; from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; SentenceTransformer(os.environ.get('AUXILIARY_EMBEDDING_MODEL', 'TaylorAI/bge-micro-v2'), device='cpu')" && \
     python -c "import os; from faster_whisper import WhisperModel; WhisperModel(os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL'], device='cpu', compute_type='int8', download_root=os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL_DIR'])"; \
     python -c "import os; import tiktoken; tiktoken.get_encoding(os.environ['TIKTOKEN_ENCODING_NAME'])"; \
+    python -c "import nltk; nltk.download('punkt_tab')"; \
     else \
     pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu --no-cache-dir && \
     uv pip install --system -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir && \
@@ -151,6 +152,7 @@ RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir uv && \
     python -c "import os; from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; SentenceTransformer(os.environ.get('AUXILIARY_EMBEDDING_MODEL', 'TaylorAI/bge-micro-v2'), device='cpu')" && \
     python -c "import os; from faster_whisper import WhisperModel; WhisperModel(os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL'], device='cpu', compute_type='int8', download_root=os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL_DIR'])"; \
     python -c "import os; import tiktoken; tiktoken.get_encoding(os.environ['TIKTOKEN_ENCODING_NAME'])"; \
+    python -c "import nltk; nltk.download('punkt_tab')"; \
     fi; \
     fi; \
     mkdir -p /app/backend/data && chown -R $UID:$GID /app/backend/data/ && \