transformers/docs/source/en/fast_tokenizers.mdx

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# Use tokenizers from 🤗 Tokenizers

The [`PreTrainedTokenizerFast`] depends on the [🤗 Tokenizers](https://huggingface.co/docs/tokenizers) library. The tokenizers obtained from the 🤗 Tokenizers library can be
loaded very simply into 🤗 Transformers.

Before getting in the specifics, let's first start by creating a dummy tokenizer in a few lines:

```python
>>> from tokenizers import Tokenizer
>>> from tokenizers.models import BPE
>>> from tokenizers.trainers import BpeTrainer
>>> from tokenizers.pre_tokenizers import Whitespace

>>> tokenizer = Tokenizer(BPE(unk_token="[UNK]"))
>>> trainer = BpeTrainer(special_tokens=["[UNK]", "[CLS]", "[SEP]", "[PAD]", "[MASK]"])

>>> tokenizer.pre_tokenizer = Whitespace()
>>> files = [...]
>>> tokenizer.train(files, trainer)
```

We now have a tokenizer trained on the files we defined. We can either continue using it in that runtime, or save it to
a JSON file for future re-use.

## Loading directly from the tokenizer object

Let's see how to leverage this tokenizer object in the 🤗 Transformers library. The
[`PreTrainedTokenizerFast`] class allows for easy instantiation, by accepting the instantiated
*tokenizer* object as an argument:

```python
>>> from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizerFast

>>> fast_tokenizer = PreTrainedTokenizerFast(tokenizer_object=tokenizer)
```

This object can now be used with all the methods shared by the 🤗 Transformers tokenizers! Head to [the tokenizer
page](main_classes/tokenizer) for more information.

## Loading from a JSON file

In order to load a tokenizer from a JSON file, let's first start by saving our tokenizer:

```python
>>> tokenizer.save("tokenizer.json")
```

The path to which we saved this file can be passed to the [`PreTrainedTokenizerFast`] initialization
method using the `tokenizer_file` parameter:

```python
>>> from transformers import PreTrainedTokenizerFast

>>> fast_tokenizer = PreTrainedTokenizerFast(tokenizer_file="tokenizer.json")
```

This object can now be used with all the methods shared by the 🤗 Transformers tokenizers! Head to [the tokenizer
page](main_classes/tokenizer) for more information.