diff --git a/ascii/ascii_convert.py b/ascii/ascii_convert.py
index ffdf0161..1b61268b 100644
--- a/ascii/ascii_convert.py
+++ b/ascii/ascii_convert.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import PIL
+import PIL.Image
 
 # ascii characters used to build the output text
 ASCII_CHARS = ["@", "#", "S", "%", "?", "*", "+", ";", ":", ",", "."]