diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 76f0c21..9ec7746 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -84,4 +84,5 @@ android/gradle/
 !.yarn/versions
 
 android/c_sources
-c_sources/
\ No newline at end of file
+# Android does not generate the sources on its own, leave this in for CI
+# c_sources/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/c_sources/tokenizers.cpp b/c_sources/tokenizers.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b0a977
--- /dev/null
+++ b/c_sources/tokenizers.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+#include "tokenizers.h"
+#include <cctype>
+#include <memory>
+#include <string>
+
+namespace opsqlite {
+
+fts5_api *fts5_api_from_db(sqlite3 *db) {
+  fts5_api *pRet = 0;
+  sqlite3_stmt *pStmt = 0;
+
+  if (SQLITE_OK == sqlite3_prepare_v2(db, "SELECT fts5(?1)", -1, &pStmt, 0)) {
+    sqlite3_bind_pointer(pStmt, 1, (void *)&pRet, "fts5_api_ptr", NULL);
+    sqlite3_step(pStmt);
+  }
+  sqlite3_finalize(pStmt);
+  return pRet;
+}
+
+class WordTokenizer {
+public:
+  WordTokenizer() = default;
+  ~WordTokenizer() = default;
+};
+
+// Define `xCreate`, which initializes the tokenizer
+int wordTokenizerCreate(void *pUnused, const char **azArg, int nArg,
+                        Fts5Tokenizer **ppOut) {
+  auto tokenizer = std::make_unique<WordTokenizer>();
+  *ppOut = reinterpret_cast<Fts5Tokenizer *>(
+      tokenizer.release()); // Cast to Fts5Tokenizer*
+  return SQLITE_OK;
+}
+
+// Define `xDelete`, which frees the tokenizer
+void wordTokenizerDelete(Fts5Tokenizer *pTokenizer) {
+  delete reinterpret_cast<WordTokenizer *>(pTokenizer);
+}
+
+// Define `xTokenize`, which performs the actual tokenization
+int wordTokenizerTokenize(Fts5Tokenizer *pTokenizer, void *pCtx, int flags,
+                          const char *pText, int nText,
+                          int (*xToken)(void *, int, const char *, int, int,
+                                        int)) {
+  int start = 0;
+  int i = 0;
+
+  while (i <= nText) {
+    if (i == nText || !std::isalnum(static_cast<unsigned char>(pText[i]))) {
+      if (start < i) { // Found a token
+        int rc = xToken(pCtx, 0, pText + start, i - start, start, i);
+        if (rc != SQLITE_OK)
+          return rc;
+      }
+      start = i + 1;
+    }
+    i++;
+  }
+  return SQLITE_OK;
+}
+
+int opsqlite_wordtokenizer_init(sqlite3 *db, char **error,
+                                sqlite3_api_routines const *api) {
+  fts5_tokenizer wordtokenizer = {wordTokenizerCreate, wordTokenizerDelete,
+                                  wordTokenizerTokenize};
+
+  fts5_api *ftsApi = (fts5_api *)fts5_api_from_db(db);
+  if (ftsApi == NULL)
+    return SQLITE_ERROR;
+
+  return ftsApi->xCreateTokenizer(ftsApi, "wordtokenizer", NULL, &wordtokenizer,
+                                  NULL);
+}
+
+int opsqlite_porter_init(sqlite3 *db, char **error,
+                         sqlite3_api_routines const *api) {
+  fts5_tokenizer porter_tokenizer = {wordTokenizerCreate, wordTokenizerDelete,
+                                     wordTokenizerTokenize};
+
+  fts5_api *ftsApi = (fts5_api *)fts5_api_from_db(db);
+  if (ftsApi == nullptr)
+    return SQLITE_ERROR;
+
+  return ftsApi->xCreateTokenizer(ftsApi, "portertokenizer", NULL,
+                                  &porter_tokenizer, NULL);
+}
+
+} // namespace opsqlite
diff --git a/c_sources/tokenizers.h b/c_sources/tokenizers.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a41fbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/c_sources/tokenizers.h
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#ifndef TOKENIZERS_H
+#define TOKENIZERS_H
+
+#define TOKENIZER_LIST opsqlite_wordtokenizer_init(db,&errMsg,nullptr);opsqlite_porter_init(db,&errMsg,nullptr);
+
+#include <sqlite3.h>
+
+namespace opsqlite {
+
+int opsqlite_wordtokenizer_init(sqlite3 *db, char **error, sqlite3_api_routines const *api);
+int opsqlite_porter_init(sqlite3 *db, char **error, sqlite3_api_routines const *api);
+
+} // namespace opsqlite
+
+#endif // TOKENIZERS_H