# Provision to retrieve matched tokens ( From lucene ) and position directly
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provision-to-retrieve-matched-tokens-from-lucene-and-position-directly/14122
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 26, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provision-to-retrieve-matched-tokens-from-lucene-and-position-directly/14122 "2013-10-26T05:46:47Z")
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### Author:  [@vineeth\_mohan\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan_2)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2013, 5:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provision-to-retrieve-matched-tokens-from-lucene-and-position-directly/14122/1 "2013-10-26T05:46:47Z")
Hi ,
I would like to know if there is any way to retrieve the matched token from
the index rather than the \_source feed or any other feed stored.
So if the text is "elephant is a big ANIMAL" and i search for the term
"animal" , my expected result is ( Assuming i have applied the analyzer
with lowercase)
{
"token" : "animal",
"start\_offset" : 20,
"end\_offset" : 28,
"type" : "",
"position" : 5
}
Is this possible with Elasticsearch ?
Thanks
Vineeth
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### Author:  [@jpountz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jpountz)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provision-to-retrieve-matched-tokens-from-lucene-and-position-directly/14122/2 "2013-10-27T20:46:57Z")
Unfortunately, even at the Lucene level, this is something which is not
doable (yet[1]). The API that looks the closest to what you are looking for
is the term vectors API[2], which will be available in Elasticsearch 1.0.
[1] [https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2878](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2878)
[2]
[http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/search-termvectors.html](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/master/search-termvectors.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/provision-to-retrieve-matched-tokens-from-lucene-and-position-directly/14122/3 "2017-07-06T02:10:23Z")