diff --git a/bin/import_aidatatang.py b/bin/import_aidatatang.py
index d1367281..703c570f 100755
--- a/bin/import_aidatatang.py
+++ b/bin/import_aidatatang.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
 
-import argparse
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser
 import glob
 import pandas
 import tarfile
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ def preprocess_data(tgz_file, target_dir):
 
 def main():
     # https://www.openslr.org/62/
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Import aidatatang_200zh corpus')
+    parser = get_importers_parser(description='Import aidatatang_200zh corpus')
     parser.add_argument('tgz_file', help='Path to aidatatang_200zh.tgz')
     parser.add_argument('--target_dir', default='', help='Target folder to extract files into and put the resulting CSVs. Defaults to same folder as the main archive.')
     params = parser.parse_args()
diff --git a/bin/import_aishell.py b/bin/import_aishell.py
index 5de1121b..939b5c92 100755
--- a/bin/import_aishell.py
+++ b/bin/import_aishell.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
 
-import argparse
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser
 import glob
 import tarfile
 import pandas
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ def preprocess_data(tgz_file, target_dir):
 
 def main():
     # http://www.openslr.org/33/
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Import AISHELL corpus')
+    parser = get_importers_parser(description='Import AISHELL corpus')
     parser.add_argument('aishell_tgz_file', help='Path to data_aishell.tgz')
     parser.add_argument('--target_dir', default='', help='Target folder to extract files into and put the resulting CSVs. Defaults to same folder as the main archive.')
     params = parser.parse_args()
diff --git a/bin/import_cv2.py b/bin/import_cv2.py
index acea122b..a4aba6bc 100755
--- a/bin/import_cv2.py
+++ b/bin/import_cv2.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
 
 import csv
 import sox
-import argparse
 import subprocess
 import progressbar
 import unicodedata
@@ -26,7 +25,8 @@ from threading import RLock
 from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool
 from multiprocessing import cpu_count
 from util.downloader import SIMPLE_BAR
-from util.text import Alphabet, validate_label
+from util.text import Alphabet
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser, validate_label_eng as validate_label
 from util.helpers import secs_to_hours
 
 
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ def _maybe_convert_wav(mp3_filename, wav_filename):
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-    PARSER = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Import CommonVoice v2.0 corpora')
+    PARSER = get_importers_parser(description='Import CommonVoice v2.0 corpora')
     PARSER.add_argument('tsv_dir', help='Directory containing tsv files')
     PARSER.add_argument('--audio_dir', help='Directory containing the audio clips - defaults to "<tsv_dir>/clips"')
     PARSER.add_argument('--filter_alphabet', help='Exclude samples with characters not in provided alphabet')
diff --git a/bin/import_freestmandarin.py b/bin/import_freestmandarin.py
index e600befb..8e6f5615 100755
--- a/bin/import_freestmandarin.py
+++ b/bin/import_freestmandarin.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
 
-import argparse
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser
 import glob
 import numpy as np
 import pandas
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ def preprocess_data(tgz_file, target_dir):
 
 def main():
     # https://www.openslr.org/38/
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Import Free ST Chinese Mandarin corpus')
+    parser = get_importers_parser(description='Import Free ST Chinese Mandarin corpus')
     parser.add_argument('tgz_file', help='Path to ST-CMDS-20170001_1-OS.tar.gz')
     parser.add_argument('--target_dir', default='', help='Target folder to extract files into and put the resulting CSVs. Defaults to same folder as the main archive.')
     params = parser.parse_args()
diff --git a/bin/import_gram_vaani.py b/bin/import_gram_vaani.py
index e1fdd078..500ed5de 100755
--- a/bin/import_gram_vaani.py
+++ b/bin/import_gram_vaani.py
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
+# Make sure we can import stuff from util/
+# This script needs to be run from the root of the DeepSpeech repository
 import os
-import csv
 import sys
+sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
+
+import csv
 import math
 import urllib
 import logging
-import argparse
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser
 import subprocess
 from os import path
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ def parse_args(args):
     Returns:
       :obj:`argparse.Namespace`: command line parameters namespace
     """
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+    parser = get_importers_parser(
         description="Imports GramVaani data for Deep Speech"
     )
     parser.add_argument(
diff --git a/bin/import_lingua_libre.py b/bin/import_lingua_libre.py
index ae893350..b9d6106a 100755
--- a/bin/import_lingua_libre.py
+++ b/bin/import_lingua_libre.py
@@ -3,13 +3,12 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 # Make sure we can import stuff from util/
 # This script needs to be run from the root of the DeepSpeech repository
-import argparse
 import os
 import sys
-
-
 sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
 
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser
+
 import csv
 import re
 import sox
@@ -173,7 +172,7 @@ def _maybe_convert_wav(ogg_filename, wav_filename):
             print('SoX processing error', ex, ogg_filename, wav_filename)
 
 def handle_args():
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Importer for LinguaLibre dataset. Check https://lingualibre.fr/wiki/Help:Download_from_LinguaLibre for details.')
+    parser = get_importers_parser(description='Importer for LinguaLibre dataset. Check https://lingualibre.fr/wiki/Help:Download_from_LinguaLibre for details.')
     parser.add_argument(dest='target_dir')
     parser.add_argument('--qId', type=int, required=True, help='LinguaLibre language qId')
     parser.add_argument('--iso639-3', type=str, required=True, help='ISO639-3 language code')
diff --git a/bin/import_m-ailabs.py b/bin/import_m-ailabs.py
index 060e8f2a..16d1bf54 100755
--- a/bin/import_m-ailabs.py
+++ b/bin/import_m-ailabs.py
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 # Make sure we can import stuff from util/
 # This script needs to be run from the root of the DeepSpeech repository
-import argparse
 import os
 import sys
 
 sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
 
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser
+
 import csv
 import subprocess
 import progressbar
@@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ def _maybe_convert_sets(target_dir, extracted_data):
 
 
 def handle_args():
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Importer for M-AILABS dataset. https://www.caito.de/2019/01/the-m-ailabs-speech-dataset/.')
+    parser = get_importers_parser(description='Importer for M-AILABS dataset. https://www.caito.de/2019/01/the-m-ailabs-speech-dataset/.')
     parser.add_argument(dest='target_dir')
     parser.add_argument('--filter_alphabet', help='Exclude samples with characters not in provided alphabet')
     parser.add_argument('--normalize', action='store_true', help='Converts diacritic characters to their base ones')
diff --git a/bin/import_magicdata.py b/bin/import_magicdata.py
index 2ec01549..27dbf74a 100755
--- a/bin/import_magicdata.py
+++ b/bin/import_magicdata.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
 
-import argparse
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser
 import glob
 import pandas
 import tarfile
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def preprocess_data(folder_with_archives, target_dir):
 
 def main():
     # https://openslr.org/68/
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Import MAGICDATA corpus')
+    parser = get_importers_parser(description='Import MAGICDATA corpus')
     parser.add_argument('folder_with_archives', help='Path to folder containing magicdata_{train,dev,test}.tar.gz')
     parser.add_argument('--target_dir', default='', help='Target folder to extract files into and put the resulting CSVs. Defaults to a folder called magicdata next to the archives')
     params = parser.parse_args()
diff --git a/bin/import_primewords.py b/bin/import_primewords.py
index 63f21cf7..0d6fdc52 100755
--- a/bin/import_primewords.py
+++ b/bin/import_primewords.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import os
 import sys
 sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
 
-import argparse
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser
 import glob
 import json
 import numpy as np
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ def preprocess_data(tgz_file, target_dir):
 
 def main():
     # https://www.openslr.org/47/
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Import Primewords Chinese corpus set 1')
+    parser = get_importers_parser(description='Import Primewords Chinese corpus set 1')
     parser.add_argument('tgz_file', help='Path to primewords_md_2018_set1.tar.gz')
     parser.add_argument('--target_dir', default='', help='Target folder to extract files into and put the resulting CSVs. Defaults to same folder as the main archive.')
     params = parser.parse_args()
diff --git a/bin/import_slr57.py b/bin/import_slr57.py
index 5dde767a..16bac05b 100755
--- a/bin/import_slr57.py
+++ b/bin/import_slr57.py
@@ -3,13 +3,12 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 # Make sure we can import stuff from util/
 # This script needs to be run from the root of the DeepSpeech repository
-import argparse
 import os
 import sys
-
-
 sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
 
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser
+
 import csv
 import re
 import sox
@@ -195,7 +194,7 @@ def _maybe_convert_sets(target_dir, extracted_data):
     print('Final amount of imported audio: %s.' % secs_to_hours(counter['total_time'] / SAMPLE_RATE))
 
 def handle_args():
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Importer for African Accented French dataset. More information on http://www.openslr.org/57/.')
+    parser = get_importers_parser(description='Importer for African Accented French dataset. More information on http://www.openslr.org/57/.')
     parser.add_argument(dest='target_dir')
     parser.add_argument('--filter_alphabet', help='Exclude samples with characters not in provided alphabet')
     parser.add_argument('--normalize', action='store_true', help='Converts diacritic characters to their base ones')
diff --git a/bin/import_ts.py b/bin/import_ts.py
index 4aaa058c..363e639e 100755
--- a/bin/import_ts.py
+++ b/bin/import_ts.py
@@ -3,14 +3,13 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 # Make sure we can import stuff from util/
 # This script needs to be run from the root of the DeepSpeech repository
-import argparse
 import os
 import re
 import sys
-
-
 sys.path.insert(1, os.path.join(sys.path[0], '..'))
 
+from util.importers import get_importers_parser
+
 import csv
 import unidecode
 import zipfile
@@ -186,7 +185,7 @@ def cleanup_transcript(text, english_compatible=False):
 
 
 def handle_args():
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Importer for TrainingSpeech dataset.')
+    parser = get_importers_parser(description='Importer for TrainingSpeech dataset.')
     parser.add_argument(dest='target_dir')
     parser.add_argument('--english-compatible', action='store_true', dest='english_compatible', help='Remove diactrics and other non-ascii chars.')
     return parser.parse_args()
diff --git a/util/importers.py b/util/importers.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9f7ba8df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/importers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import argparse
+import re
+
+def get_importers_parser(description):
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=description)
+    return parser
+
+# Validate and normalize transcriptions. Returns a cleaned version of the label
+# or None if it's invalid.
+def validate_label_eng(label):
+    # For now we can only handle [a-z ']
+    if re.search(r"[0-9]|[(<\[\]&*{]", label) is not None:
+        return None
+
+    label = label.replace("-", " ")
+    label = label.replace("_", " ")
+    label = re.sub("[ ]{2,}", " ", label)
+    label = label.replace(".", "")
+    label = label.replace(",", "")
+    label = label.replace(";", "")
+    label = label.replace("?", "")
+    label = label.replace("!", "")
+    label = label.replace(":", "")
+    label = label.replace("\"", "")
+    label = label.strip()
+    label = label.lower()
+
+    return label if label else None
diff --git a/util/test_importers.py b/util/test_importers.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..884c2193
--- /dev/null
+++ b/util/test_importers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+import unittest
+
+from .importers import validate_label_eng
+
+class TestValidateLabelEng(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_numbers(self):
+        label = validate_label_eng("this is a 1 2 3 test")
+        self.assertEqual(label, None)
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()
diff --git a/util/text.py b/util/text.py
index af958191..60bfe9f1 100644
--- a/util/text.py
+++ b/util/text.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import absolute_import, division, print_function
 
 import numpy as np
-import re
 import struct
 
 from six.moves import range
@@ -166,25 +165,3 @@ def levenshtein(a, b):
             current[j] = min(add, delete, change)
 
     return current[n]
-
-# Validate and normalize transcriptions. Returns a cleaned version of the label
-# or None if it's invalid.
-def validate_label(label):
-    # For now we can only handle [a-z ']
-    if re.search(r"[0-9]|[(<\[\]&*{]", label) is not None:
-        return None
-
-    label = label.replace("-", " ")
-    label = label.replace("_", " ")
-    label = re.sub("[ ]{2,}", " ", label)
-    label = label.replace(".", "")
-    label = label.replace(",", "")
-    label = label.replace(";", "")
-    label = label.replace("?", "")
-    label = label.replace("!", "")
-    label = label.replace(":", "")
-    label = label.replace("\"", "")
-    label = label.strip()
-    label = label.lower()
-
-    return label if label else None