Index: graphspell-js/spellchecker.js
==================================================================
--- graphspell-js/spellchecker.js
+++ graphspell-js/spellchecker.js
@@ -68,10 +68,17 @@
             this.oTokenizer = new tokenizer.Tokenizer(this.sLangCode);
         } else {
             this.oTokenizer = new Tokenizer(this.sLangCode);
         }
     }
+
+    getTokenizer () {
+        if (!this.oTokenizer) {
+            this.loadTokenizer();
+        }
+        return this.oTokenizer;
+    }
 
     setMainDictionary (dictionary) {
         // returns true if the dictionary is loaded
         this.oMainDic = this._loadDictionary(dictionary);
         return Boolean(this.oMainDic);

Index: graphspell/spellchecker.py
==================================================================
--- graphspell/spellchecker.py
+++ graphspell/spellchecker.py
@@ -46,10 +46,15 @@
             return None
 
     def loadTokenizer (self):
         self.oTokenizer = tokenizer.Tokenizer(self.sLangCode)
 
+    def getTokenizer (self):
+        if not self.oTokenizer:
+            self.loadTokenizer()
+        return self.oTokenizer
+
     def setMainDictionary (self, sfDictionary):
         "returns True if the dictionary is loaded"
         self.oMainDic = self._loadDictionary(sfDictionary)
         return bool(self.oMainDic)