elasticsearch/docs/reference/analysis/analyzers/simple-analyzer.asciidoc

[[analysis-simple-analyzer]]
=== Simple analyzer
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<titleabbrev>Simple</titleabbrev>
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The `simple` analyzer breaks text into tokens at any non-letter character, such
as numbers, spaces, hyphens and apostrophes, discards non-letter characters, 
and changes uppercase to lowercase.

[[analysis-simple-analyzer-ex]]
==== Example

[source,console]
----
POST _analyze
{
  "analyzer": "simple",
  "text": "The 2 QUICK Brown-Foxes jumped over the lazy dog's bone."
}
----

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[source,console-result]
----
{
  "tokens": [
    {
      "token": "the",
      "start_offset": 0,
      "end_offset": 3,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 0
    },
    {
      "token": "quick",
      "start_offset": 6,
      "end_offset": 11,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "token": "brown",
      "start_offset": 12,
      "end_offset": 17,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 2
    },
    {
      "token": "foxes",
      "start_offset": 18,
      "end_offset": 23,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 3
    },
    {
      "token": "jumped",
      "start_offset": 24,
      "end_offset": 30,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 4
    },
    {
      "token": "over",
      "start_offset": 31,
      "end_offset": 35,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 5
    },
    {
      "token": "the",
      "start_offset": 36,
      "end_offset": 39,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 6
    },
    {
      "token": "lazy",
      "start_offset": 40,
      "end_offset": 44,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 7
    },
    {
      "token": "dog",
      "start_offset": 45,
      "end_offset": 48,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 8
    },
    {
      "token": "s",
      "start_offset": 49,
      "end_offset": 50,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 9
    },
    {
      "token": "bone",
      "start_offset": 51,
      "end_offset": 55,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 10
    }
  ]
}
----
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The `simple` analyzer parses the sentence and produces the following 
tokens: 

[source,text]
----
[ the, quick, brown, foxes, jumped, over, the, lazy, dog, s, bone ]
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[[analysis-simple-analyzer-definition]]
==== Definition

The `simple` analyzer is defined by one tokenizer:

Tokenizer::
* <<analysis-lowercase-tokenizer, Lowercase Tokenizer>>

[[analysis-simple-analyzer-customize]]
==== Customize

To customize the `simple` analyzer, duplicate it to create the basis for 
a custom analyzer. This custom analyzer can be modified as required, usually by 
adding token filters.

[source,console]
----
PUT /my_index
{
  "settings": {
    "analysis": {
      "analyzer": {
        "my_custom_simple_analyzer": {
          "tokenizer": "lowercase",
          "filter": [                          <1>
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
----
<1> Add token filters here.