diff --git a/ocropus-linegen b/ocropus-linegen
index 689d4c88..da1ea4bf 100755
--- a/ocropus-linegen
+++ b/ocropus-linegen
@@ -119,8 +119,6 @@ def rgeometry(image,eps=0.03,delta=0.3):
     d = c-dot(m,c)+array([randn()*delta,randn()*delta])
     return interpolation.affine_transform(image,m,offset=d,order=1,mode='constant',cval=image[0,0])
 
-from scipy.ndimage import interpolation,filters
-
 def rdistort(image,distort=3.0,dsigma=10.0,cval=0):
     h,w = image.shape
     hs = randn(h,w)
diff --git a/ocropus-nlbin b/ocropus-nlbin
index 65629048..03536e17 100755
--- a/ocropus-nlbin
+++ b/ocropus-nlbin
@@ -199,8 +199,6 @@ def process1(job):
         ocrolib.write_image_binary(base+".bin.png",bin)
         ocrolib.write_image_gray(base+".nrm.png",flat)
 
-import ocrolib
-
 if args.debug>0 or args.show>0: args.parallel = 0
 
 if args.output: