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RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter

RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter breaks text into size-limited chunks while trying to keep paragraphs, sentences, and words together. It checks separators in order and falls back to smaller units when needed.

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Since
v0.0

Syntax

RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(separators: list[str] | None = None, keep_separator: bool | Literal['start', 'end'] = True, is_separator_regex: bool = False, **kwargs: Any)

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  • TextSplitter
  • create_documents
  • split_documents
  • from_huggingface_tokenizer
  • from_tiktoken_encoder
  • transform_documents
  • get_separators_for_language

Source: Splitting recursively - Text splitter integration guide - Docs by LangChain. Checked 2026-11-03.