diff --git a/orangecontrib/text/widgets/owpreprocess.py b/orangecontrib/text/widgets/owpreprocess.py
index 8f939612b..fc973e33c 100644
--- a/orangecontrib/text/widgets/owpreprocess.py
+++ b/orangecontrib/text/widgets/owpreprocess.py
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 from types import SimpleNamespace
 import os
 import random
-import pkg_resources
 
 from AnyQt.QtCore import Qt, pyqtSignal, QModelIndex
 from AnyQt.QtWidgets import QComboBox, QButtonGroup, QLabel, QCheckBox, \
@@ -35,7 +34,7 @@
 
 
 def icon_path(basename):
-    return pkg_resources.resource_filename(__name__, "icons/" + basename)
+    return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "icons", basename)
 
 
 class Result(SimpleNamespace):