---
id: langchain-text-splitters
version: "1.1.2"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# langchain-text-splitters — LangChain text splitting utilities

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Popularity: top 1,000 on PyPI

## Install

pip install langchain-text-splitters
uv add langchain-text-splitters
poetry add langchain-text-splitters

## Description

# 🦜✂️ LangChain Text Splitters

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Looking for the JS/TS version? Check out [LangChain.js](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchainjs).

## Quick Install

```bash
pip install langchain-text-splitters
```

## 🤔 What is this?

LangChain Text Splitters contains utilities for splitting into chunks a wide variety of text documents.

## 📖 Documentation

For full documentation, see the [API reference](https://reference.langchain.com/python/langchain_text_splitters/).

## 📕 Releases & Versioning

See our [Releases](https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/release-policy) and [Versioning](https://docs.langchain.com/oss/python/versioning) policies.

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Provides utilities for splitting text documents into manageable chunks, a foundational operation for preparing text data for language model processing and retrieval systems.

Verdict: Production-stable text splitting library backed by the active LangChain ecosystem, with no known vulnerabilities, permissive licensing, and minimal dependencies. Suitable for immediate use in document processing pipelines.

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