Tokenizers are used to generate the tokens from a text string. It breaks down the text string into tokens where it finds whitespace or other punctuation symbols. Elasticsearch offers a number of built-in tokenizers to generate tokens from a string. Standard tokenizer is one of the most popular tokenizers of Elasticsearch, which is mostly used to divides a string into multiple tokens.
Apart from that, there are several other tokenizers, such as - lowercase tokenizer, whitespace tokenizer, pattern tokenizer, keyword analyzer, NGram tokenizer, and many more offered by Elasticsearch. Usually, a tokenizer helps to analyze the text string.
