keep_separator: Whether to keep the separator in the chunks
            add_start_index: If `True`, includes chunk's start index in metadata
            strip_whitespace: If `True`, strips whitespace from the start and end of
                              every document
        """
        if chunk_overlap > chunk_size:
            raise ValueError(
                f"Got a larger chunk overlap ({chunk_overlap}) than chunk size "
                f"({chunk_size}), should be smaller."
            )
        self._chunk_size = chunk_size
        self._chunk_overlap = chunk_overlap
        self._length_function = length_function
        self._keep_separator = keep_separator
        self._add_start_index = add_start_index
        self._strip_whitespace = strip_whitespace
[docs]    @abstractmethod
    def split_text(self, text: str) -> List[str]:
        """Split text into multiple components."""
[docs]    def create_documents(
        self, texts: List[str], metadatas: Optional[List[dict]] = None
    ) -> List[Document]:
        """Create documents from a list of texts."""
        _metadatas = metadatas or [{}] * len(texts)
        documents = []
        for i, text in enumerate(texts):
            index = -1
            for chunk in self.split_text(text):
                metadata = copy.deepcopy(_metadatas[i])
                if self._add_start_index:
                    index = text.find(chunk, index + 1)
                    metadata["start_index"] = index
                new_doc = Document(page_content=chunk, metadata=metadata)
                documents.append(new_doc)
        return documents
[docs]    def split_documents(self, documents: Iterable[Document]) -> List[Document]:
        """Split documents."""
        texts, metadatas = [], []
        for doc in documents: