Question

Trying to access the analyzed/tokenized text in my ElasticSearch documents.

I know you can use the Analyze API to analyze arbitrary text according your analysis modules. So I could copy and paste data from my documents into the Analyze API to see how it was tokenized.

This seems unnecessarily time consuming, though. Is there any way to instruct ElasticSearch to returned the tokenized text in search results? I’ve looked through the docs and haven’t found anything.

Answer 1

Have a look at this other answer: elasticsearch – Return the tokens of a field. Unfortunately it requires to reanalyze on the fly the content of your field using the script provided.
It should be possible to write a plugin to expose this feature. The idea would be to add two endpoints to:

• allow to read the lucene TermsEnum like the solr TermsComponent does, useful to make auto-suggestions too. Note that it wouldn’t be per document, just every term on the index with term frequency and document frequency (potentially expensive with a lot of unique terms)
• allow to read the term vectors if enabled, like the solr TermVectorComponent does. This would be per document but requires to store the term vectors (you can configure it in your mapping) and allows also to retrieve positions and offsets if enabled.