diff --git a/openerp/tools/misc.py b/openerp/tools/misc.py
index 15af8967409..4e3db23bc2d 100644
--- a/openerp/tools/misc.py
+++ b/openerp/tools/misc.py
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ from itertools import islice, izip
 from lxml import etree
 from which import which
 from threading import local
+try:
+    from html2text import html2text
+except ImportError:
+    html2text = None
 
 from config import config
 from cache import *