diff --git a/src/rcldb/rcldb.cpp b/src/rcldb/rcldb.cpp
index eb521131..68bc1301 100644
--- a/src/rcldb/rcldb.cpp
+++ b/src/rcldb/rcldb.cpp
@@ -876,6 +876,7 @@ Db::Db(const RclConfig *cfp)
 	m_config->getConfParam("maxfsoccuppc", &m_maxFsOccupPc);
 	m_config->getConfParam("idxflushmb", &m_flushMb);
 	m_config->getConfParam("idxmetastoredlen", &m_idxMetaStoredLen);
+	m_config->getConfParam("idxtexttruncatelen", &m_idxTextTruncateLen);
     }
 }
 
@@ -1480,6 +1481,10 @@ bool Db::addOrUpdate(const string &udi, const string &parent_udi, Doc &doc)
         }
     } else {
 
+        if (m_idxTextTruncateLen > 0) {
+            doc.text = truncate_to_word(doc.text, m_idxTextTruncateLen);
+        }
+        
 	// If the ipath is like a path, index the last element. This is
 	// for compound documents like zip and chm for which the filter
 	// uses the file path as ipath. 
diff --git a/src/rcldb/rcldb.h b/src/rcldb/rcldb.h
index 3e249fc8..d27e5da9 100644
--- a/src/rcldb/rcldb.h
+++ b/src/rcldb/rcldb.h
@@ -509,6 +509,8 @@ private:
     // text when indexing. It only has an influence on the size of the
     // db as we are free to shorten it again when displaying
     int          m_idxAbsTruncLen;
+    // Document text truncation length
+    int          m_idxTextTruncateLen{0};
     // This is the size of the abstract that we synthetize out of query
     // term contexts at *query time*
     int          m_synthAbsLen;