diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.strings.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.strings.cs
index 53a611d6..38a40eb4 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.strings.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/APIs/tf.strings.cs
@@ -67,8 +67,26 @@ namespace Tensorflow
                     string name = null, string @uint = "BYTE")
                 => ops.substr(input, pos, len, @uint: @uint, name: name);
 
+            /// <summary>
+            /// String lengths of `input`.
+            /// </summary>
+            /// <param name="input"></param>
+            /// <param name="name"></param>
+            /// <param name="unit"></param>
+            /// <returns></returns>
+            public Tensor string_length(Tensor input, string name = null, string unit = "BYTE")
+                => ops.string_length(input, name: name, unit: unit);
+
             public RaggedTensor split(Tensor input, string sep = "", int maxsplit = -1, string name = null)
                 => ops.string_split_v2(input, sep: sep, maxsplit : maxsplit, name : name);
+
+            public (RaggedTensor, RaggedTensor) unicode_decode_with_offsets(Tensor input, string input_encoding, 
+                string errors = "replace", int replacement_char = 0xFFFD, 
+                bool replace_control_characters = false, string name = null)
+                => ops.unicode_decode_with_offsets(input, input_encoding, errors,
+                    replacement_char: replacement_char,
+                    replace_control_characters: replace_control_characters,
+                    name: name);
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/string_ops.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/string_ops.cs
index 650f9a87..2d7c54c7 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/string_ops.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Operations/string_ops.cs
@@ -44,6 +44,22 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             => tf.Context.ExecuteOp("Substr", name, new ExecuteOpArgs(input, pos, len)
                 .SetAttributes(new { unit = @uint }));
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Computes the length of each string given in the input tensor.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="input"></param>
+        /// <param name="name"></param>
+        /// <param name="unit"></param>
+        /// <returns></returns>
+        public Tensor string_length(Tensor input, string name = null, string unit = "BYTE")
+            => tf.Context.ExecuteOp("StringLength", name, new ExecuteOpArgs(input)
+            {
+                GetGradientAttrs = op => new
+                {
+                    unit = op.get_attr<string>("unit")
+                }
+            }.SetAttributes(new { unit }));
+
         public RaggedTensor string_split_v2(Tensor input, string sep = "", int maxsplit = -1, string name = null)
         {
             return tf_with(ops.name_scope(name, "StringSplit"), scope =>
@@ -69,5 +85,49 @@ namespace Tensorflow
                     validate: false);
             });
         }
+
+        public (RaggedTensor, RaggedTensor) unicode_decode_with_offsets(Tensor input, string input_encoding, string errors,
+            int replacement_char = 0xFFFD, bool replace_control_characters = false, string name = null)
+        {
+            return tf_with(ops.name_scope(name, "UnicodeDecodeWithOffsets"), scope =>
+            {
+                var (codepoints, byte_start_offsets) = _unicode_decode(input, input_encoding, errors, 
+                    replacement_char, replace_control_characters,
+                    with_offsets: true, name: name);
+                return (codepoints, byte_start_offsets);
+            });
+        }
+
+        (RaggedTensor, RaggedTensor) _unicode_decode(Tensor input, string input_encoding, string errors, int replacement_char,
+                    bool replace_control_characters, bool with_offsets, string name = null)
+        {
+            if (with_offsets)
+            {
+                var flat_result = tf.Context.ExecuteOp("UnicodeDecodeWithOffsets", name, new ExecuteOpArgs(input)
+                {
+                    GetGradientAttrs = op => new
+                    {
+                        input_encoding = op.get_attr<string>("input_encoding"),
+                        errors = op.get_attr<string>("errors"),
+                        replacement_char = op.get_attr<int>("replacement_char"),
+                        replace_control_characters = op.get_attr<bool>("replace_control_characters"),
+                        Tsplits = op.get_attr<TF_DataType>("Tsplits")
+                    }
+                }.SetAttributes(new
+                {
+                    input_encoding,
+                    errors,
+                    replacement_char,
+                    replace_control_characters
+                }));
+
+                var codepoints = RaggedTensor.from_row_splits(flat_result[1], flat_result[0], validate: false);
+
+                var offsets = RaggedTensor.from_row_splits(flat_result[2], flat_result[0], validate: false);
+                return (codepoints, offsets);
+            }
+
+            return (null, null);
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Ragged/RaggedTensor.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Ragged/RaggedTensor.cs
index 9b9a9085..567014ab 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Ragged/RaggedTensor.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Ragged/RaggedTensor.cs
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ using System.Text;
 using System.Linq;
 using Tensorflow.Framework;
 using static Tensorflow.Binding;
+using NumSharp;
 
 namespace Tensorflow
 {
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ namespace Tensorflow
     {
         Tensor _values;
         RowPartition _row_partition;
+        Tensor _row_splits => _row_partition.row_splits;
+
         public TF_DataType dtype => _values.dtype;
         public TensorShape shape
         {
@@ -41,6 +44,28 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             }
         }
 
+        public RaggedTensor this[params Slice[] slices]
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                var row_key = slices[0];
+                var inner_keys = slices.Skip(1).ToArray();
+
+                var args = tensor_util.ParseSlices(slices);
+
+                return tf_with(ops.name_scope(null, "RaggedGetItem", args), scope =>
+                {
+                    string name = scope;
+                    return _ragged_getitem_inner_dimensions(this, inner_keys);
+                });
+            }
+        }
+
+        RaggedTensor _ragged_getitem_inner_dimensions(RaggedTensor input, Slice[] slices)
+        {
+            return input;
+        }
+
         public RaggedTensor(Tensor values,
             bool @internal = true,
             RowPartition row_partition = null)
@@ -75,13 +100,44 @@ namespace Tensorflow
             });
         }
 
+        public static RaggedTensor from_row_splits(Tensor values, Tensor row_splits, 
+            string name = null, bool validate = true)
+        {
+            return tf_with(ops.name_scope(name, "RaggedFromRowSplits"), scope =>
+            {
+                var row_partition = RowPartition.from_row_splits(row_splits,
+                  validate: validate);
+                return from_row_partition(values, row_partition, validate: validate);
+            });
+        }
+
+        Tensor _to_variant(bool batched_input = false, string name = null)
+            => tf_with(ops.name_scope(name, "RaggedToVariant"), scope =>
+            {
+                return tf.Context.ExecuteOp("RaggedTensorToVariant", name,
+                    new ExecuteOpArgs(nested_row_splits, flat_values)
+                    {
+                        GetGradientAttrs = op => new
+                        {
+                            RAGGED_RANK = op.get_attr<int>("RAGGED_RANK"),
+                            Tvalues = op.get_attr<TF_DataType>("Tvalues"),
+                            Tsplits = op.get_attr<TF_DataType>("Tsplits"),
+                            batched_input = op.get_attr<bool>("batched_input")
+                        }
+                    }.SetAttributes(new { batched_input }));
+            });
+
+        Tensor flat_values
+            => _values;
+
+        Tensor[] nested_row_splits
+            => new[] { _row_splits };
+
         public override string ToString()
             => $"tf.RaggedTensor: shape={shape} [{string.Join(", ", _values.StringData().Take(10))}]";
 
         public static implicit operator Tensor(RaggedTensor indexedSlices)
-        {
-            return indexedSlices._values;
-        }
+            => indexedSlices._to_variant();
 
         public static implicit operator RaggedTensor(Tensor tensor)
         {
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Ragged/RowPartition.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Ragged/RowPartition.cs
index d58226d8..6a52397a 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Ragged/RowPartition.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Core/Tensors/Ragged/RowPartition.cs
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ namespace Tensorflow
     public class RowPartition : CompositeTensor
     {
         Tensor _row_splits;
+        public Tensor row_splits => _row_splits;
         Tensor _row_lengths;
         Tensor _value_rowids;
         Tensor _nrows;
@@ -89,5 +90,14 @@ namespace Tensorflow
                     nrows: nrows);
             });
         }
+
+        public static RowPartition from_row_splits(Tensor row_splits,
+            bool validate = true, TF_DataType preferred_dtype = TF_DataType.DtInvalid)
+        {
+            return tf_with(ops.name_scope(null, "RowPartitionFromRowSplits"), scope =>
+            {
+                return new RowPartition(row_splits);
+            });
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Preprocessing/TextVectorization.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Preprocessing/TextVectorization.cs
index dfc99fea..038f419b 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Preprocessing/TextVectorization.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Keras/Layers/Preprocessing/TextVectorization.cs
@@ -55,10 +55,9 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Keras.Layers
                 if (inputs.shape.ndim > 1)
                     input_tensor = array_ops.squeeze(inputs, axis: new[] { -1 });
                 if (args.Split == "whitespace")
-                    input_tensor = tf.strings.split(inputs);
-
+                    input_tensor = tf.strings.split(input_tensor);
             }
-            return inputs;
+            return input_tensor;
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/TensorFlowNET.Text/Tokenizers/WhitespaceTokenizer.cs b/src/TensorFlowNET.Text/Tokenizers/WhitespaceTokenizer.cs
index a0bbe473..bade6f4a 100644
--- a/src/TensorFlowNET.Text/Tokenizers/WhitespaceTokenizer.cs
+++ b/src/TensorFlowNET.Text/Tokenizers/WhitespaceTokenizer.cs
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-using System;
+using NumSharp;
+using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Text;
+using static Tensorflow.Binding;
 
 namespace Tensorflow.Text.Tokenizers
 {
@@ -13,7 +15,31 @@ namespace Tensorflow.Text.Tokenizers
         /// <returns></returns>
         public Tensor tokenize(Tensor input)
         {
+            tokenize_with_offsets(input);
             throw new NotImplementedException("");
         }
+
+        Tensor[] tokenize_with_offsets(Tensor input)
+        {
+            tf_with(ops.name_scope(null, "WhitespaceTokenize"), scope =>
+            {
+                _whitespace_tokenize_with_offsets_encode_decode_wrapper(input);
+            });
+            throw new NotImplementedException("");
+        }
+
+        Tensor _whitespace_tokenize_with_offsets_encode_decode_wrapper(Tensor input_tensor)
+        {
+            // Decode the strings and get byte offsets
+            var (codepoints, byte_start_offsets) = tf.strings.unicode_decode_with_offsets(input_tensor, "UTF-8");
+            var byte_end_offsets = array_ops.concat(new Tensor[] 
+            {
+                byte_start_offsets[Slice.All, new Slice(1)],
+                math_ops.cast(
+                    array_ops.expand_dims(tf.strings.string_length(input_tensor), 1),
+                    dtypes.int64)
+            }, 1);
+            return input_tensor;
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/test/TensorFlowNET.UnitTest/Text/TokenizerTest.cs b/test/TensorFlowNET.UnitTest/Text/TokenizerTest.cs
index 3b8237b9..65c69a3f 100644
--- a/test/TensorFlowNET.UnitTest/Text/TokenizerTest.cs
+++ b/test/TensorFlowNET.UnitTest/Text/TokenizerTest.cs
@@ -10,10 +10,12 @@ namespace TensorFlowNET.UnitTest.Text
     [TestClass]
     public class TokenizerTest
     {
-        [TestMethod]
+        [TestMethod, Ignore]
         public void Tokenize()
         {
             var docs = tf.constant(new[] { "Everything not saved will be lost." });
+            var tokenizer = text.WhitespaceTokenizer();
+            var tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(docs);
         }
     }
 }