diff --git a/lib/src/lib.rs b/lib/src/lib.rs
index 1834d243..29d8e05c 100644
--- a/lib/src/lib.rs
+++ b/lib/src/lib.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,23 @@ pub extern "C" fn from_bytes(bytes: *const u8, len: u32) -> *mut Tokenizer {
     return Box::into_raw(Box::new(tokenizer));
 }
 
+#[no_mangle]
+pub extern "C" fn from_bytes_with_truncation(bytes: *const u8, len: u32, max_len: usize, dir: u8) -> *mut Tokenizer {
+    let bytes_slice = unsafe { std::slice::from_raw_parts(bytes, len as usize) };
+    let tokenizer: Tokenizer = Tokenizer::from_bytes(bytes_slice)
+        .expect("failed to create tokenizer")
+        .with_truncation(Some(tokenizers::tokenizer::TruncationParams{
+            max_length: max_len,
+            direction: match dir {
+                0 => tokenizers::tokenizer::TruncationDirection::Left,
+                1 => tokenizers::tokenizer::TruncationDirection::Right,
+                _ => panic!("invalid truncation direction"),
+            },
+            ..Default::default()
+        })).to_owned().into();
+    return Box::into_raw(Box::new(tokenizer));
+}
+
 #[no_mangle]
 pub extern "C" fn from_file(config: *const libc::c_char) -> *mut libc::c_void {
     let config_cstr = unsafe { CStr::from_ptr(config) };
diff --git a/tokenizer.go b/tokenizer.go
index 1bc6c25a..58d055d4 100644
--- a/tokenizer.go
+++ b/tokenizer.go
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ type Tokenizer struct {
 	tokenizer unsafe.Pointer
 }
 
+type TruncationDirection int
+
+const (
+	TruncationDirectionLeft TruncationDirection = iota
+	TruncationDirectionRight
+)
+
 var _ io.Closer = (*Tokenizer)(nil)
 
 func FromBytes(data []byte) (*Tokenizer, error) {
@@ -26,6 +33,11 @@ func FromBytes(data []byte) (*Tokenizer, error) {
 	return &Tokenizer{tokenizer: tokenizer}, nil
 }
 
+func FromBytesWithTruncation(data []byte, maxLen uint32, dir TruncationDirection) (*Tokenizer, error) {
+	tokenizer := C.from_bytes_with_truncation((*C.uchar)(unsafe.Pointer(&data[0])), C.uint(len(data)), C.uint(maxLen), C.uchar(dir))
+	return &Tokenizer{tokenizer: tokenizer}, nil
+}
+
 func FromFile(path string) (*Tokenizer, error) {
 	cPath := C.CString(path)
 	defer C.free(unsafe.Pointer(cPath))
diff --git a/tokenizer_test.go b/tokenizer_test.go
index f48ec22c..233ab5d9 100644
--- a/tokenizer_test.go
+++ b/tokenizer_test.go
@@ -85,6 +85,61 @@ func TestEncode(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestEncodeWithTruncation(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name       string
+		str        string
+		addSpecial bool
+		maxLen     int
+		dir        tokenizers.TruncationDirection
+		want       []uint32
+	}{
+		{
+			name:       "without special tokens, left truncation",
+			str:        "brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
+			addSpecial: false,
+			maxLen:     5,
+			dir:        tokenizers.TruncationDirectionLeft,
+			want:       []uint32{0x5185b, 0x3c54, 0x3a89, 0x35fc3, 0x57b4},
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "without special tokens, right truncation",
+			str:        "brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
+			addSpecial: false,
+			maxLen:     5,
+			dir:        tokenizers.TruncationDirectionRight,
+			want:       []uint32{0xca3f, 0x2f304, 0x5185b, 0x3c54, 0x3a89},
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "with special tokens, left truncation",
+			str:        "brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
+			addSpecial: true,
+			maxLen:     5,
+			dir:        tokenizers.TruncationDirectionLeft,
+			want:       []uint32{0x65, 0x3a89, 0x35fc3, 0x57b4, 0x66},
+		},
+		{
+			name:       "with special tokens, right truncation",
+			str:        "brown fox jumps over the lazy dog",
+			addSpecial: true,
+			maxLen:     5,
+			dir:        tokenizers.TruncationDirectionRight,
+			want:       []uint32{0x65, 0xca3f, 0x2f304, 0x5185b, 0x66},
+		},
+	}
+	for _, tt := range tests {
+		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			tk, err := tokenizers.FromBytesWithTruncation(embeddedBytes, uint32(tt.maxLen), tt.dir)
+			require.NoError(t, err)
+			defer tk.Close()
+
+			tk.Encode(tt.str, tt.addSpecial)
+			got := tk.Encode(tt.str, tt.addSpecial)
+			assert.Equal(t, tt.want, got)
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestDecode(t *testing.T) {
 	tk, err := tokenizers.FromFile("./test/data/bert-base-uncased.json")
 	require.NoError(t, err)
diff --git a/tokenizers.h b/tokenizers.h
index 24eac849..909c92eb 100644
--- a/tokenizers.h
+++ b/tokenizers.h
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 void *from_bytes(const uint8_t *config, uint32_t len);
 
+void *from_bytes_with_truncation(const uint8_t *config, uint32_t len, uint32_t max_len, uint8_t direction);
+
 void *from_file(const char *config);
 
 void free_tokenizer(void *ptr);