# Token text splitter for sentence transformers
The current TokenTextSplitter only works with OpenAi models via the
`tiktoken` package. This is not clear from the name `TokenTextSplitter`.
In this (first PR) a token based text splitter for sentence transformer
models is added. In the future I think we should work towards injecting
a tokenizer into the TokenTextSplitter to make ti more flexible.
Could perhaps be reviewed by @dev2049
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Co-authored-by: Harrison Chase <hw.chase.17@gmail.com>
This does not involve a separator, and will naively chunk input text at
the appropriate boundaries in token space.
This is helpful if we have strict token length limits that we need to
strictly follow the specified chunk size, and we can't use aggressive
separators like spaces to guarantee the absence of long strings.
CharacterTextSplitter will let these strings through without splitting
them, which could cause overflow errors downstream.
Splitting at arbitrary token boundaries is not ideal but is hopefully
mitigated by having a decent overlap quantity. Also this results in
chunks which has exact number of tokens desired, instead of sometimes
overcounting if we concatenate shorter strings.
Potentially also helps with #528.
