diff --git a/src/tokenizer/alphanum_only.rs b/src/tokenizer/alphanum_only.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..2e009e45d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tokenizer/alphanum_only.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+use super::{Token, TokenFilter, TokenStream};
+
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct AlphaNumOnlyFilter;
+
+
+pub struct AlphaNumOnlyFilterStream<TailTokenStream>
+    where TailTokenStream: TokenStream
+{
+    tail: TailTokenStream,
+}
+
+
+impl<TailTokenStream> AlphaNumOnlyFilterStream<TailTokenStream>
+    where TailTokenStream: TokenStream
+{
+    fn predicate(&self, token: &Token) -> bool {
+        token.text.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric())
+    }
+
+    fn wrap(
+        tail: TailTokenStream,
+    ) -> AlphaNumOnlyFilterStream<TailTokenStream> {
+        AlphaNumOnlyFilterStream {
+            tail
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+
+impl<TailTokenStream> TokenFilter<TailTokenStream> for AlphaNumOnlyFilter
+    where
+        TailTokenStream: TokenStream,
+{
+    type ResultTokenStream = AlphaNumOnlyFilterStream<TailTokenStream>;
+
+    fn transform(&self, token_stream: TailTokenStream) -> Self::ResultTokenStream {
+        AlphaNumOnlyFilterStream::wrap(token_stream)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<TailTokenStream> TokenStream for AlphaNumOnlyFilterStream<TailTokenStream>
+    where
+        TailTokenStream: TokenStream
+{
+    fn token(&self) -> &Token {
+        self.tail.token()
+    }
+
+    fn token_mut(&mut self) -> &mut Token {
+        self.tail.token_mut()
+    }
+
+    fn advance(&mut self) -> bool {
+        loop {
+            if self.tail.advance() {
+                if self.predicate(self.tail.token()) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+            } else {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/tokenizer/mod.rs b/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
index cdcd2346e..7557a0b91 100644
--- a/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
+++ b/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
@@ -137,7 +137,9 @@ mod tokenizer_manager;
 mod japanese_tokenizer;
 mod token_stream_chain;
 mod raw_tokenizer;
+mod alphanum_only;
 
+pub use self::alphanum_only::AlphaNumOnlyFilter;
 pub use self::tokenizer::{Token, TokenFilter, TokenStream, Tokenizer};
 pub use self::tokenizer::BoxedTokenizer;
 pub use self::tokenizer_manager::TokenizerManager;