diff --git a/scripts/05_feature_extraction.py b/scripts/05_feature_extraction.py
index 0f848aa..ee4b914 100644
--- a/scripts/05_feature_extraction.py
+++ b/scripts/05_feature_extraction.py
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 
     config = HorusConfig()
 
-    EXTRACT_LEXICAL = True
-    EXTRACT_TEXT = False
+    EXTRACT_LEXICAL = False
+    EXTRACT_TEXT = True
     EXTRACT_IMAGE = False
 
     _extractor_lexical = None
diff --git a/scripts/picklep2to3.py b/scripts/picklep2to3.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..260004c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/picklep2to3.py
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# kimchi.py
+# For converting Python 2 pickles to Python 3
+
+import os
+import dill
+import pickle
+import argparse
+
+
+def convert(old_pkl):
+    """
+    Convert a Python 2 pickle to Python 3
+    """
+    # Make a name for the new pickle
+    new_pkl = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(old_pkl))[0]+"_p3.pkl"
+
+    # Convert Python 2 "ObjectType" to Python 3 object
+    dill._dill._reverse_typemap["ObjectType"] = object
+
+    # Open the pickle using latin1 encoding
+    with open(old_pkl, "rb") as f:
+        loaded = pickle.load(f, encoding="latin1")
+
+    # Re-save as Python 3 pickle
+    with open(new_pkl, "wb") as outfile:
+        pickle.dump(loaded, outfile)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    #parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+    #    description="Convert a Python 2 pickle to Python 3"
+    #)
+
+    #parser.add_argument("infile", help="Python 2 pickle filename")
+
+    #args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    #convert(args.infile)
+    convert('/Volumes/dne5ssd/horus/resources/models/tfidf-ml/text_classification_LinearSVC.pkl')
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/algorithms/text_classification/bow_tfidf.py b/src/algorithms/text_classification/bow_tfidf.py
index 42d7731..6dd6334 100644
--- a/src/algorithms/text_classification/bow_tfidf.py
+++ b/src/algorithms/text_classification/bow_tfidf.py
@@ -1,28 +1,29 @@
-
 from sklearn.externals import joblib
 from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfTransformer
 
-class BowTfidf():
+
+class BowTfidf(object):
     def __init__(self, config):
         try:
             self.config = config
             self.config.logger.debug('loading TF-IDF')
+            # TODO: retrain all models (Python2to3 issue on joblib) and remove the encoding parameter
             self.text_checking_model_1 = joblib.load(config.models_1_text)
             self.text_checking_model_2 = joblib.load(config.models_2_text)
             self.text_checking_model_3 = joblib.load(config.models_3_text)
             self.text_checking_model_4 = joblib.load(config.models_4_text)
             self.text_checking_model_5 = joblib.load(config.models_5_text)
-            #self.tfidf_transformer = TfidfTransformer()
+            # self.tfidf_transformer = TfidfTransformer()
         except Exception as e:
             raise e
 
     def detect_text_klass(self, text):
         try:
             predictions = [self.text_checking_model_1.predict(text)[0],
-                        self.text_checking_model_2.predict(text)[0],
-                        self.text_checking_model_3.predict(text)[0],
-                        self.text_checking_model_4.predict(text)[0],
-                        self.text_checking_model_5.predict(text)[0]]
+                           self.text_checking_model_2.predict(text)[0],
+                           self.text_checking_model_3.predict(text)[0],
+                           self.text_checking_model_4.predict(text)[0],
+                           self.text_checking_model_5.predict(text)[0]]
 
             return predictions
         except Exception as e: