diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c0e776c82..236031b0d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-## 0.15.0-dev10
+## 0.15.0-dev11
 
 ### Enhancements
 
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 
 ### Fixes
 
+* **Remedy error on Windows when `nltk` binaries are downloaded.** Work around a quirk in the Windows implementation of `tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile` where accessing the temporary file by name raises `PermissionError`.
+
 ## 0.14.10
 
 ### Enhancements
diff --git a/unstructured/__version__.py b/unstructured/__version__.py
index 9ea2af740..326c34bad 100644
--- a/unstructured/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.15.0-dev10"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.15.0-dev11"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py b/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py
index a04a75d22..80641b135 100644
--- a/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py
+++ b/unstructured/nlp/tokenize.py
@@ -83,20 +83,20 @@ def download_nltk_packages():
                 sha256.update(block)
         return sha256.hexdigest()
 
-    with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as tmp_file:
-        tgz_file = tmp_file.name
-        urllib.request.urlretrieve(NLTK_DATA_URL, tgz_file)
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as temp_dir_path:
+        tgz_file_path = os.path.join(temp_dir_path, "nltk_data.tgz")
+        urllib.request.urlretrieve(NLTK_DATA_URL, tgz_file_path)
 
-        file_hash = sha256_checksum(tgz_file)
+        file_hash = sha256_checksum(tgz_file_path)
         if file_hash != NLTK_DATA_SHA256:
-            os.remove(tgz_file)
+            os.remove(tgz_file_path)
             raise ValueError(f"SHA-256 mismatch: expected {NLTK_DATA_SHA256}, got {file_hash}")
 
         # Extract the contents
         if not os.path.exists(nltk_data_dir):
             os.makedirs(nltk_data_dir)
 
-        with tarfile.open(tgz_file, "r:gz") as tar:
+        with tarfile.open(tgz_file_path, "r:gz") as tar:
             tar.extractall(path=nltk_data_dir)