diff --git a/src/modelling/checkpoint.jl b/src/modelling/checkpoint.jl
index df1f339..a537058 100644
--- a/src/modelling/checkpoint.jl
+++ b/src/modelling/checkpoint.jl
@@ -54,3 +54,35 @@ function doc(checkpoint::Checkpoint, integer_ids::AbstractArray, integer_mask::A
     D = mapslices(v -> iszero(v) ? v : normalize(v), D, dims = 1)                   # normalize each embedding
     return D, mask
 end
+
+function docFromText(checkpoint::Checkpoint, docs::Vector{String}, bsize::Union{Missing, Int})
+    if ismissing(bsize)
+        integer_ids, integer_mask = tensorize(checkpoint.doc_tokenizer, checkpoint.model.tokenizer, docs, bsize)
+        doc(checkpoint, integer_ids, integer_mask)
+    else
+        text_batches, reverse_indices = tensorize(checkpoint.doc_tokenizer, checkpoint.model.tokenizer, docs, bsize)
+        batches = [doc(checkpoint, integer_ids, integer_mask) for (integer_ids, integer_mask) in text_batches]
+
+        # aggregate all embeddings
+        D, mask = [], []
+        for (_D, _mask) in batches
+            push!(D, _D)
+            push!(mask, _mask)
+        end
+
+        # concat embeddings and masks, and put them in the original order
+        D, mask = cat(D..., dims = 3)[:, :, reverse_indices], cat(mask..., dims = 3)[:, :, reverse_indices]
+        mask = reshape(mask, size(mask)[2:end])
+
+        # get doclens, i.e number of attended tokens for each passage
+        doclens = sum(mask, dims = 1)
+
+        # flatten out embeddings, i.e get embeddings for each token in each passage
+        D = reshape(D, size(D)[1], prod(size(D)[2:end]))
+
+        # remove embeddings for masked tokens
+        D = D[:, reshape(mask, prod(size(mask)))]
+
+        D, doclens
+    end
+end