diff --git a/.github/workflows/tests.yml b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
index 447c1eb7..51b13b90 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/tests.yml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install sec-certs
         run: |
           pip install -e .
+          python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
       - name: Run tests
         run: pytest --cov=sec_certs tests
       - name: Code coverage upload
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 82687161..68f2ec14 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -35,13 +35,10 @@ Note on single-sourcing the package version: More can be read [here](https://pac
 ### Currently, the release process is as follows
 
 1. Update dependencies with `pre-commit autoupdate`, pin new versions of linters into `pyproject.toml`.
-2. Run `cd requirements && ./compile.sh` to update dependencies.
-3. Use `python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm` to find out the current version of `en_core_web_sm` dependency. Update pyproject.toml link of `en_core_web_sm` dependency with up-to-date link from [GitHub](https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases).
-4. Run `cd requirements && ./compile.sh` **again** to update dependencies.
+2. Run `cd requirements && ./compile.sh` to update dependencies, commit the changes.
 5. Create a release from GitHub UI. Include release notes, add proper version tag and publish the release (or create it from scratch with new tag).
 6. This will automatically update PyPi and DockerHub packages.
 
-
 ## Quality assurance
 
 All commits shall pass the lint pipeline of the following tools:
diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 53a5a75f..e0040227 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ RUN \
   pip3 install -U pip wheel pip-tools && \
   pip-sync requirements/requirements.txt && \
   pip3 install --no-cache notebook jupyterlab && \
-  pip3 install -e .
+  pip3 install -e . && \
+  python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
 
 # just to be sure that pdftotext is in $PATH
 ENV PATH /usr/bin/pdftotext:${PATH}
diff --git a/docs/installation.md b/docs/installation.md
index e62149e6..d489b03c 100644
--- a/docs/installation.md
+++ b/docs/installation.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 The tool can be installed from PyPi with
 
 ```bash
-pip install -U sec-certs
+pip install -U sec-certs && python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
 ```
 
 Note, that `Python>=3.10` is required.
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ git clone https://github.com/crocs-muni/sec-certs.git
 python3 -m venv venv
 source venv/bin/activate
 pip install -e .
+python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm
 ```
 
 Alternatively, our Our [Dockerfile](https://github.com/crocs-muni/sec-certs/blob/main/Dockerfile) represents a reproducible way of setting up the environment.
diff --git a/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/quickstart.md
index 49731e88..f2e3690f 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.md
+++ b/docs/quickstart.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 ::::{tab-set}
 
 :::{tab-item} Common Criteria
-1. Install the latest version with `pip install -U sec-certs` (see [installation](installation.md)).
+1. Install the latest version with `pip install -U sec-certs && python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm` (see [installation](installation.md)).
 2. In your Python interpreter, type
 ```python
 from sec_certs.dataset.cc import CCDataset
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ to obtain to obtain freshly processed dataset from [seccerts.org](https://seccer
 :::
 
 :::{tab-item} FIPS 140
-1. Install the latest version with `pip install -U sec-certs` (see [installation](installation.md)).
+1. Install the latest version with `pip install -U sec-certs && python -m spacy download en_core_web_sm` (see [installation](installation.md)).
 2. In your Python interpreter, type
 ```python
 from sec_certs.dataset.fips import FIPSDataset
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ae19a5c0..e1d4397c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@
     "ipykernel",
     "ipywidgets",
     "spacy",
-    "en-core-web-sm @ https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1-py3-none-any.whl",
     "pkgconfig",
     "seaborn",
     "pySankeyBeta",
diff --git a/requirements/all_requirements.txt b/requirements/all_requirements.txt
index 7a836c31..4424f3ac 100644
--- a/requirements/all_requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/all_requirements.txt
@@ -130,8 +130,6 @@ docutils==0.19
     #   myst-parser
     #   pydata-sphinx-theme
     #   sphinx
-en-core-web-sm @ https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1-py3-none-any.whl
-    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 evaluate==0.4.1
     # via setfit
 executing==2.0.1
@@ -644,9 +642,7 @@ snowballstemmer==2.2.0
 soupsieve==2.5
     # via beautifulsoup4
 spacy==3.7.2
-    # via
-    #   en-core-web-sm
-    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 spacy-legacy==3.0.12
     # via spacy
 spacy-loggers==1.0.5
diff --git a/requirements/dev_requirements.txt b/requirements/dev_requirements.txt
index 1b028276..82951940 100644
--- a/requirements/dev_requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev_requirements.txt
@@ -99,8 +99,6 @@ docutils==0.19
     #   myst-parser
     #   pydata-sphinx-theme
     #   sphinx
-en-core-web-sm @ https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1-py3-none-any.whl
-    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 executing==2.0.1
     # via stack-data
 fastjsonschema==2.19.0
@@ -449,9 +447,7 @@ snowballstemmer==2.2.0
 soupsieve==2.5
     # via beautifulsoup4
 spacy==3.7.2
-    # via
-    #   en-core-web-sm
-    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 spacy-legacy==3.0.12
     # via spacy
 spacy-loggers==1.0.5
diff --git a/requirements/nlp_requirements.txt b/requirements/nlp_requirements.txt
index 1445a3e2..3d96efa3 100644
--- a/requirements/nlp_requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/nlp_requirements.txt
@@ -101,8 +101,6 @@ dill==0.3.7
     #   multiprocess
 distro==1.8.0
     # via tabula-py
-en-core-web-sm @ https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1-py3-none-any.whl
-    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 evaluate==0.4.1
     # via setfit
 executing==2.0.1
@@ -518,9 +516,7 @@ smart-open==6.4.0
 soupsieve==2.5
     # via beautifulsoup4
 spacy==3.7.2
-    # via
-    #   en-core-web-sm
-    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 spacy-legacy==3.0.12
     # via spacy
 spacy-loggers==1.0.5
diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index 7f3b639c..209dc0ee 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ attrs==23.1.0
     #   jsonschema
     #   referencing
 beautifulsoup4==4.12.2
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 blis==0.7.11
     # via thinc
 catalogue==2.0.10
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ charset-normalizer==3.3.2
     # via requests
 click==8.1.7
     # via
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
     #   typer
 cloudpathlib==0.16.0
     # via weasel
@@ -58,24 +58,22 @@ deprecated==1.2.14
     # via pikepdf
 distro==1.8.0
     # via tabula-py
-en-core-web-sm @ https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1-py3-none-any.whl
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
 executing==2.0.1
     # via stack-data
 fonttools==4.45.0
     # via matplotlib
 html5lib==1.1
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 idna==3.4
     # via requests
 ipykernel==6.27.0
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 ipython==8.17.2
     # via
     #   ipykernel
     #   ipywidgets
 ipywidgets==8.1.1
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 jedi==0.19.1
     # via ipython
 jinja2==3.1.3
@@ -83,7 +81,7 @@ jinja2==3.1.3
 joblib==1.3.2
     # via scikit-learn
 jsonschema==4.20.0
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 jsonschema-specifications==2023.11.1
     # via jsonschema
 jupyter-client==8.6.0
@@ -101,14 +99,14 @@ langcodes==3.3.0
 lxml==4.9.3
     # via
     #   pikepdf
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 markupsafe==2.1.3
     # via jinja2
 matplotlib==3.8.2
     # via
     #   pysankeybeta
     #   seaborn
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 matplotlib-inline==0.1.6
     # via
     #   ipykernel
@@ -121,7 +119,7 @@ murmurhash==1.0.10
 nest-asyncio==1.5.8
     # via ipykernel
 networkx==3.2.1
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 numpy==1.26.2
     # via
     #   blis
@@ -132,7 +130,7 @@ numpy==1.26.2
     #   scikit-learn
     #   scipy
     #   seaborn
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
     #   spacy
     #   tabula-py
     #   thinc
@@ -150,24 +148,24 @@ pandas==2.1.3
     # via
     #   pysankeybeta
     #   seaborn
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
     #   tabula-py
 parso==0.8.3
     # via jedi
 pdftotext==2.2.2
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 pexpect==4.8.0
     # via ipython
 pikepdf==8.7.1
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 pillow==10.2.0
     # via
     #   matplotlib
     #   pikepdf
     #   pytesseract
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 pkgconfig==1.5.5
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 platformdirs==4.0.0
     # via jupyter-core
 preshed==3.0.9
@@ -179,7 +177,7 @@ prompt-toolkit==3.0.41
 psutil==5.9.6
     # via
     #   ipykernel
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 ptyprocess==0.7.0
     # via pexpect
 pure-eval==0.2.2
@@ -190,49 +188,51 @@ pydantic==2.5.2
     # via
     #   confection
     #   pydantic-settings
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
     #   spacy
     #   thinc
     #   weasel
 pydantic-core==2.14.5
     # via pydantic
 pydantic-settings==2.1.0
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 pygments==2.17.2
     # via ipython
 pyparsing==3.1.1
     # via matplotlib
 pypdf[crypto]==3.17.1
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via
+    #   pypdf
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 pysankeybeta==1.4.1
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 pytesseract==0.3.10
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 python-dateutil==2.8.2
     # via
     #   jupyter-client
     #   matplotlib
     #   pandas
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 python-dotenv==1.0.0
     # via pydantic-settings
 pytz==2023.3.post1
     # via pandas
 pyyaml==6.0.1
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 pyzmq==25.1.1
     # via
     #   ipykernel
     #   jupyter-client
 rapidfuzz==3.5.2
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 referencing==0.31.0
     # via
     #   jsonschema
     #   jsonschema-specifications
 requests==2.31.0
     # via
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
     #   spacy
     #   weasel
 rpds-py==0.13.1
@@ -240,17 +240,17 @@ rpds-py==0.13.1
     #   jsonschema
     #   referencing
 scikit-learn==1.3.2
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 scipy==1.11.4
     # via
     #   scikit-learn
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 seaborn==0.13.0
     # via
     #   pysankeybeta
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 setuptools-scm==8.0.4
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 six==1.16.0
     # via
     #   asttokens
@@ -263,9 +263,7 @@ smart-open==6.4.0
 soupsieve==2.5
     # via beautifulsoup4
 spacy==3.7.2
-    # via
-    #   en-core-web-sm
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 spacy-legacy==3.0.12
     # via spacy
 spacy-loggers==1.0.5
@@ -279,7 +277,7 @@ srsly==2.4.8
 stack-data==0.6.3
     # via ipython
 tabula-py==2.9.0
-    # via sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 thinc==8.2.1
     # via spacy
 threadpoolctl==3.2.0
@@ -290,7 +288,7 @@ tornado==6.3.3
     #   jupyter-client
 tqdm==4.66.1
     # via
-    #   sec-certs (../pyproject.toml)
+    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
     #   spacy
 traitlets==5.13.0
     # via
diff --git a/requirements/test_requirements.txt b/requirements/test_requirements.txt
index 96f02e88..f3e76cd7 100644
--- a/requirements/test_requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/test_requirements.txt
@@ -62,8 +62,6 @@ deprecated==1.2.14
     # via pikepdf
 distro==1.8.0
     # via tabula-py
-en-core-web-sm @ https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1-py3-none-any.whl
-    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 executing==2.0.1
     # via stack-data
 fonttools==4.45.0
@@ -280,9 +278,7 @@ smart-open==6.4.0
 soupsieve==2.5
     # via beautifulsoup4
 spacy==3.7.2
-    # via
-    #   en-core-web-sm
-    #   sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
+    # via sec-certs (./../pyproject.toml)
 spacy-legacy==3.0.12
     # via spacy
 spacy-loggers==1.0.5