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@@ -4,4 +4,107 @@
 <titleabbrev>Trim</titleabbrev>
 ++++
 
-The `trim` token filter trims the whitespace surrounding a token.
+Removes leading and trailing whitespace from each token in a stream.
+
+The `trim` filter uses Lucene's
+https://lucene.apache.org/core/{lucene_version_path}/analyzers-common/org/apache/lucene/analysis/miscellaneous/TrimFilter.html[TrimFilter].
+
+[TIP]
+====
+Many commonly used tokenizers, such as the
+<<analysis-standard-tokenizer,`standard`>> or
+<<analysis-whitespace-tokenizer,`whitespace`>> tokenizer, remove whitespace by
+default. When using these tokenizers, you don't need to add a separate `trim`
+filter.
+====
+
+[[analysis-trim-tokenfilter-analyze-ex]]
+==== Example
+
+To see how the `trim` filter works, you first need to produce a token
+containing whitespace.
+
+The following <<indices-analyze,analyze API>> request uses the
+<<analysis-keyword-tokenizer,`keyword`>> tokenizer to produce a token for 
+`" fox "`.
+
+[source,console]
+----
+GET _analyze
+{
+  "tokenizer" : "keyword",
+  "text" : " fox "
+}
+----
+
+The API returns the following response. Note the `" fox "` token contains
+the original text's whitespace.
+
+[source,console-result]
+----
+{
+  "tokens": [
+    {
+      "token": " fox ",
+      "start_offset": 0,
+      "end_offset": 5,
+      "type": "word",
+      "position": 0
+    }
+  ]
+}
+----
+
+To remove the whitespace, add the `trim` filter to the previous analyze API
+request.
+
+[source,console]
+----
+GET _analyze
+{
+  "tokenizer" : "keyword",
+  "filter" : ["trim"],
+  "text" : " fox "
+}
+----
+
+The API returns the following response. The returned `fox` token does not
+include any leading or trailing whitespace.
+
+[source,console-result]
+----
+{
+  "tokens": [
+    {
+      "token": "fox",
+      "start_offset": 0,
+      "end_offset": 5,
+      "type": "word",
+      "position": 0
+    }
+  ]
+}
+----
+
+[[analysis-trim-tokenfilter-analyzer-ex]]
+==== Add to an analyzer
+
+The following <<indices-create-index,create index API>> request uses the `trim`
+filter to configure a new <<analysis-custom-analyzer,custom analyzer>>.
+
+[source,console]
+----
+PUT trim_example
+{
+  "settings": {
+    "analysis": {
+      "analyzer": {
+        "keyword_trim": {
+          "tokenizer": "keyword",
+          "filter": [ "trim" ]
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+----
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