diff --git a/ppocr/data/imaug/operators.py b/ppocr/data/imaug/operators.py
index c3dfd316f8..daa67a25da 100644
--- a/ppocr/data/imaug/operators.py
+++ b/ppocr/data/imaug/operators.py
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import sys
 import six
 import cv2
 import numpy as np
-import fasttext
 
 
 class DecodeImage(object):
@@ -136,6 +135,7 @@ class ToCHWImage(object):
 
 class Fasttext(object):
     def __init__(self, path="None", **kwargs):
+        import fasttext
         self.fast_model = fasttext.load_model(path)
 
     def __call__(self, data):
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1d10b23a34..3865781996 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -12,5 +12,4 @@ cython
 lxml
 premailer
 openpyxl
-fasttext==0.9.1
 paddlenlp>=2.2.1