diff --git a/optimum/commands/export/openvino.py b/optimum/commands/export/openvino.py
index 4fed3f6f88..025a40e057 100644
--- a/optimum/commands/export/openvino.py
+++ b/optimum/commands/export/openvino.py
@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ def run(self):
             )
             library_name = "transformers"
 
+        if self.args.convert_tokenizer:
+            logger.warning("`--convert-tokenizer` option is deprecated. Tokenizer will be converted by default.")
+
         if (
             library_name == "diffusers"
             and ov_config
@@ -261,10 +264,21 @@ def run(self):
             )
             model.save_pretrained(self.args.output)
 
-        else:
-            if self.args.convert_tokenizer:
-                logger.warning("`--convert-tokenizer` option is deprecated. Tokenizer will be converted by default.")
+            if self.args.disable_convert_tokenizer:
+                return
+
+            # avoid import when using other exporters (IPEX, INC)
+            from ...exporters.openvino.convert import export_tokenizer
 
+            output = Path(self.args.output)
+            tokenizer = getattr(model, "tokenizer", None)
+            if tokenizer is not None:
+                export_tokenizer(tokenizer, output / "tokenizer")
+
+            tokenizer_2 = getattr(model, "tokenizer_2", None)
+            if tokenizer_2 is not None:
+                export_tokenizer(tokenizer_2, output / "tokenizer_2")
+        else:
             # TODO : add input shapes
             main_export(
                 model_name_or_path=self.args.model,
diff --git a/optimum/exporters/openvino/__main__.py b/optimum/exporters/openvino/__main__.py
index 8908c430b3..31abd0f327 100644
--- a/optimum/exporters/openvino/__main__.py
+++ b/optimum/exporters/openvino/__main__.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 from optimum.exporters import TasksManager
 from optimum.exporters.onnx.base import OnnxConfig
 from optimum.exporters.onnx.constants import SDPA_ARCHS_ONNX_EXPORT_NOT_SUPPORTED
-from optimum.exporters.openvino.convert import export_from_model, export_tokenizer
+from optimum.exporters.openvino.convert import export_from_model
 from optimum.intel.utils.import_utils import is_openvino_tokenizers_available, is_transformers_version
 from optimum.utils.save_utils import maybe_load_preprocessors
 
@@ -355,6 +355,9 @@ class StoreAttr(object):
         **kwargs_shapes,
     )
 
+    # hide openvino import when using other exporters
+    from optimum.exporters.openvino.convert import export_tokenizer
+
     if convert_tokenizer and is_openvino_tokenizers_available():
         if library_name != "diffusers":
             tokenizer = next(
@@ -373,11 +376,11 @@ class StoreAttr(object):
         else:
             tokenizer = getattr(model, "tokenizer", None)
             if tokenizer is not None:
-                export_tokenizer(tokenizer, output)
+                export_tokenizer(tokenizer, output / "tokenizer")
 
             tokenizer_2 = getattr(model, "tokenizer_2", None)
             if tokenizer_2 is not None:
-                export_tokenizer(tokenizer_2, output, suffix="_2")
+                export_tokenizer(tokenizer_2, output / "tokenizer_2")
     elif convert_tokenizer and not is_openvino_tokenizers_available():
         logger.warning("Tokenizer won't be converted.")
 
diff --git a/optimum/exporters/openvino/convert.py b/optimum/exporters/openvino/convert.py
index 6c86c2c2df..bb781a6904 100644
--- a/optimum/exporters/openvino/convert.py
+++ b/optimum/exporters/openvino/convert.py
@@ -667,20 +667,21 @@ def export_tokenizer(
     output: Union[str, Path],
     suffix: Optional[str] = "",
 ):
-    from optimum.intel.openvino import OV_DETOKENIZER_NAME, OV_TOKENIZER_NAME  # avoid circular imports
+    # avoid circular imports
+    from optimum.intel.openvino import OV_DETOKENIZER_NAME, OV_TOKENIZER_NAME
+    from optimum.intel.openvino.utils import maybe_convert_tokenizer_to_fast
 
     try:
         from openvino_tokenizers import convert_tokenizer
     except ModuleNotFoundError:
-        # avoid this message before tokenizers are part of the openvino dependencies
-        # logger.info(
-        #     "Run `pip install openvino-tokenizers[transformers]` to get OpenVINO tokenizer/detokenizer models."
-        # )
         return
 
     if not isinstance(output, Path):
         output = Path(output)
 
+    if output.exists():
+        tokenizer = maybe_convert_tokenizer_to_fast(tokenizer, output)
+
     try:
         converted = convert_tokenizer(tokenizer, with_detokenizer=True)
     except NotImplementedError:
diff --git a/optimum/intel/openvino/utils.py b/optimum/intel/openvino/utils.py
index 4d1479f733..69a750fb65 100644
--- a/optimum/intel/openvino/utils.py
+++ b/optimum/intel/openvino/utils.py
@@ -17,10 +17,13 @@
 import logging
 import os
 from glob import glob
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Tuple, Union
 
 import numpy as np
 from huggingface_hub import model_info
 from openvino.runtime import Core, Type, properties
+from transformers import AutoTokenizer, CLIPTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerFast
 from transformers.onnx.utils import ParameterFormat, compute_serialized_parameters_size
 
 
@@ -107,6 +110,24 @@
 }
 
 
+NEED_CONVERT_TO_FAST_TOKENIZER: Tuple[type(PreTrainedTokenizer)] = (CLIPTokenizer,)
+
+
+def maybe_convert_tokenizer_to_fast(
+    hf_tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer, tokenizer_path: Path
+) -> Union[PreTrainedTokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerFast]:
+    if isinstance(hf_tokenizer, PreTrainedTokenizerFast):
+        return hf_tokenizer
+
+    if isinstance(hf_tokenizer, NEED_CONVERT_TO_FAST_TOKENIZER):
+        try:
+            return AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(tokenizer_path)
+        except Exception:
+            return hf_tokenizer
+
+    return hf_tokenizer
+
+
 def use_external_data_format(num_parameters: int) -> bool:
     """
     Returns whether or not the model requires using external data format for the ONNX export
diff --git a/tests/openvino/test_exporters_cli.py b/tests/openvino/test_exporters_cli.py
index 09fad5d773..cac79abaee 100644
--- a/tests/openvino/test_exporters_cli.py
+++ b/tests/openvino/test_exporters_cli.py
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ class OVCLIExportTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         "wav2vec2": 0,  # no tokenizer
         "bert": 1,  # no detokenizer
         "blenderbot": 2,
-        "stable-diffusion": 0,  # not supported
-        "stable-diffusion-xl": 0,  # not supported
+        "stable-diffusion": 2,
+        "stable-diffusion-xl": 4,
     }
 
     SUPPORTED_SD_HYBRID_ARCHITECTURES = (