diff --git a/algods/algods.py b/algods/algods.py
index 86db147..213736b 100644
--- a/algods/algods.py
+++ b/algods/algods.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import argparse
-from tqdm import tqdm
 import unicodedata
 import sys
 
@@ -15,6 +14,8 @@ def parse_args(argv: dict = None) -> argparse.Namespace:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Exercise 1')
     parser.add_argument('input', nargs='?', type=argparse.FileType('r'), help='Documents to read.', default=sys.stdin)
     parser.add_argument('similarity', nargs='?', type=float, help='Similarity threshold.', default=0.05)
+    parser.add_argument('--progress', '-p', '--tqdm', action='store_true',
+                        help='Display progress bar while calculating signature matrix.')
 
     return parser.parse_args(argv[1:])
 
@@ -55,12 +56,20 @@ def min_hash(doc: str, perm: list[str]) -> str:
             return d
 
 
-def compute_signature_matrix(shingles: np.ndarray, permutations_count: int) -> np.ndarray:
+def compute_signature_matrix(shingles: np.ndarray, permutations_count: int, display_tqdm: bool = False) -> np.ndarray:
     shingles_count, docs_count = shingles.shape
 
     signature_matrix = np.inf * np.ones((permutations_count, docs_count))
 
-    for permutation_id in tqdm(range(permutations_count)):
+    permutations_iterator = range(permutations_count)
+    if display_tqdm:
+        try:
+            from tqdm import tqdm
+            permutations_iterator = tqdm(permutations_iterator)
+        except ImportError:
+            print("tqdm is not installed. Please install tqdm before using --tqdm option.")
+
+    for permutation_id in permutations_iterator:
         permutation = np.random.permutation(shingles)
         signature_matrix[permutation_id] = permutation.argmax(0)
 
@@ -76,7 +85,7 @@ def jaccard_similarity(doc1: set, doc2: set) -> float:
     return len(inter) / len(union)
 
 
-def parse(stream, similarity: float) -> None:
+def parse(stream, similarity: float, display_tqdm: bool = False) -> None:
     docs = [line.rstrip('\n') for line in stream]
     docs = [normalize(doc) for doc in docs]  # Remove special characters and normalize accents
 
@@ -94,7 +103,7 @@ def parse(stream, similarity: float) -> None:
             rows *= 2
         threshold = (1 / bands) ** (1 / rows)
 
-    signature = compute_signature_matrix(shingles, bands * rows)
+    signature = compute_signature_matrix(shingles, bands * rows, display_tqdm)
 
     candidate_pairs = set()
 
@@ -128,4 +137,4 @@ def parse(stream, similarity: float) -> None:
 
 def main():
     ns = parse_args()
-    parse(ns.input, ns.similarity)
+    parse(ns.input, ns.similarity, ns.progress)