diff --git a/tokenizers/src/processors/bert.rs b/tokenizers/src/processors/bert.rs
index e67c3cc6..c34ce429 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/processors/bert.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/processors/bert.rs
@@ -1,56 +1,30 @@
 use crate::tokenizer::{Encoding, PostProcessor, Result};
-use crate::utils::{truncate_encodings, TruncationStrategy};
 
 pub struct BertProcessing {
-    max_len: usize,
-    trunc_strategy: TruncationStrategy,
-    trunc_stride: usize,
-
     sep: (String, u32),
     cls: (String, u32),
 }
 
 impl BertProcessing {
-    pub fn new(
-        max_len: usize,
-        trunc_strategy: TruncationStrategy,
-        trunc_stride: usize,
-        sep: (String, u32),
-        cls: (String, u32),
-    ) -> Self {
-        BertProcessing {
-            max_len,
-            trunc_strategy,
-            trunc_stride,
-            sep,
-            cls,
-        }
+    pub fn new(sep: (String, u32), cls: (String, u32)) -> Self {
+        BertProcessing { sep, cls }
     }
 }
 
 impl PostProcessor for BertProcessing {
-    fn process(&self, encoding: Encoding, pair_encoding: Option<Encoding>) -> Result<Encoding> {
-        let special_token_len = if pair_encoding.is_some() { 3 } else { 2 };
-        let total_len = encoding.get_ids().len()
-            + pair_encoding
-                .as_ref()
-                .map(|e| e.get_ids().len())
-                .unwrap_or(0)
-            + special_token_len;
-
-        let need_trunc = if total_len > self.max_len {
-            total_len - self.max_len
+    fn added_tokens(
+        &self,
+        _encoding: &Encoding,
+        pair_encoding: &Option<Encoding>,
+    ) -> Result<usize> {
+        if pair_encoding.is_some() {
+            Ok(3)
         } else {
-            0
-        };
-        let (mut encoding, pair_encoding) = truncate_encodings(
-            encoding,
-            pair_encoding,
-            need_trunc,
-            self.trunc_strategy,
-            self.trunc_stride,
-        )?;
+            Ok(2)
+        }
+    }
 
+    fn process(&self, mut encoding: Encoding, pair_encoding: Option<Encoding>) -> Result<Encoding> {
         // Prepare ids
         let ids = [&[self.cls.1], &encoding.get_ids()[..], &[self.sep.1]].concat();
         let pair_ids = pair_encoding
diff --git a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/encoding.rs b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/encoding.rs
index be2c87c6..981f99a9 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/encoding.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/encoding.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 /// The various possible padding directions
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub enum PaddingDirection {
     Left,
     Right,
@@ -155,8 +156,8 @@ impl Encoding {
         pad_length: usize,
         pad_id: u32,
         pad_type_id: u32,
-        pad_token: String,
-        direction: PaddingDirection,
+        pad_token: &str,
+        direction: &PaddingDirection,
     ) {
         if self.ids.len() > pad_length {
             // We just do nothing if the wanted padding length is smaller than us
@@ -166,13 +167,13 @@ impl Encoding {
 
         let ids_pad = vec![pad_id; pad_length];
         let type_ids_pad = vec![pad_type_id; pad_length];
-        let tokens_pad = vec![pad_token; pad_length];
+        let tokens_pad = vec![pad_token.to_owned(); pad_length];
         let attention_pad = vec![0; pad_length];
         let special_pad = vec![1; pad_length];
         let offsets_pad = vec![(0, 0); pad_length];
 
         match direction {
-            Left => {
+            PaddingDirection::Left => {
                 self.ids = [&ids_pad[..], &self.ids[..]].concat();
                 self.type_ids = [&type_ids_pad[..], &self.type_ids[..]].concat();
                 self.tokens = [&tokens_pad[..], &self.tokens[..]].concat();
@@ -181,7 +182,7 @@ impl Encoding {
                     [&special_pad[..], &self.special_tokens_mask[..]].concat();
                 self.offsets = [&offsets_pad[..], &self.offsets[..]].concat();
             }
-            Right => {
+            PaddingDirection::Right => {
                 self.ids = [&self.ids[..], &ids_pad[..]].concat();
                 self.type_ids = [&self.type_ids[..], &type_ids_pad[..]].concat();
                 self.tokens = [&self.tokens[..], &tokens_pad[..]].concat();
diff --git a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
index 2e079fd3..cad63e38 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/tokenizer/mod.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 //!   - PostProcessor: Takes care of the processing after tokenization. (Like truncating, padding,
 //!   ...)
 //!
+use crate::utils::{
+    pad_encodings, truncate_encodings, PaddingParams, PaddingStrategy, TruncationParams,
+};
 use rayon::prelude::*;
 use std::{
     collections::HashMap,
@@ -20,7 +23,7 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 mod encoding;
-pub use encoding::Encoding;
+pub use encoding::*;
 
 pub type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>;
 
@@ -46,6 +49,7 @@ pub trait Model {
 /// A PostProcessor has the responsibility to post process an encoded output of the Tokenizer.
 /// Truncating, Padding, etc... are PostProcessor steps
 pub trait PostProcessor {
+    fn added_tokens(&self, encoding: &Encoding, pair_encoding: &Option<Encoding>) -> Result<usize>;
     fn process(&self, encoding: Encoding, pair_encoding: Option<Encoding>) -> Result<Encoding>;
 }
 
@@ -125,6 +129,10 @@ pub struct Tokenizer {
     added_tokens: HashMap<AddedToken, u32>,
     added_tokens_r: HashMap<u32, AddedToken>,
     split_re: Option<regex::Regex>,
+
+    // General processing parameters
+    trunc: Option<TruncationParams>,
+    padding: Option<PaddingParams>,
 }
 
 impl Tokenizer {
@@ -139,11 +147,13 @@ impl Tokenizer {
             added_tokens: HashMap::new(),
             added_tokens_r: HashMap::new(),
             split_re: None,
+            trunc: None,
+            padding: None,
         }
     }
 
-    /// Set the normalizers
-    pub fn with_normalizers(&mut self, normalizer: Box<dyn Normalizer + Sync>) -> &Self {
+    /// Set the normalizer
+    pub fn with_normalizer(&mut self, normalizer: Box<dyn Normalizer + Sync>) -> &Self {
         self.normalizer = Some(normalizer);
         self
     }
@@ -172,6 +182,18 @@ impl Tokenizer {
         self
     }
 
+    /// Set the truncation parameters
+    pub fn with_truncation(&mut self, trunc: Option<TruncationParams>) -> &Self {
+        self.trunc = trunc;
+        self
+    }
+
+    /// Set the padding strategy
+    pub fn with_padding(&mut self, padding: Option<PaddingParams>) -> &Self {
+        self.padding = padding;
+        self
+    }
+
     /// Get the size of the vocabulary
     pub fn get_vocab_size(&self) -> usize {
         self.model.get_vocab_size()
@@ -283,10 +305,17 @@ impl Tokenizer {
 
     /// Encode all the sentences in parallel, using multiple threads
     pub fn encode_batch(&self, inputs: Vec<EncodeInput>) -> Result<Vec<Encoding>> {
-        inputs
+        let encodings = inputs
             .into_par_iter()
             .map(|input| self.encode(input))
-            .collect()
+            .collect::<Result<Vec<Encoding>>>()?;
+
+        if let Some(params) = &self.padding {
+            // We do the padding here to make sure we handle the batch padding
+            pad_encodings(encodings, &params)
+        } else {
+            Ok(encodings)
+        }
     }
 
     /// Decode the given ids, back to a String
@@ -376,20 +405,61 @@ impl Tokenizer {
     /// Post processing logic, handling the case where there is no PostProcessor set
     fn post_process(
         &self,
-        mut encoding: Encoding,
+        encoding: Encoding,
         pair_encoding: Option<Encoding>,
     ) -> Result<Encoding> {
-        if let Some(processor) = &self.post_processor {
-            processor.process(encoding, pair_encoding)
+        // 1. First we truncate if needed
+        let (mut encoding, pair_encoding) = {
+            if let Some(trunc) = &self.trunc {
+                let n_added_tokens = if let Some(processor) = &self.post_processor {
+                    processor.added_tokens(&encoding, &pair_encoding)?
+                } else {
+                    0
+                };
+
+                if n_added_tokens > 0 {
+                    let params = TruncationParams {
+                        max_length: trunc.max_length - n_added_tokens,
+                        ..*trunc
+                    };
+                    truncate_encodings(encoding, pair_encoding, &params)?
+                } else {
+                    truncate_encodings(encoding, pair_encoding, &trunc)?
+                }
+            } else {
+                (encoding, pair_encoding)
+            }
+        };
+
+        // 2. Then We post process
+        let mut final_encoding = if let Some(processor) = &self.post_processor {
+            processor.process(encoding, pair_encoding)?
         } else {
             match pair_encoding {
-                None => Ok(encoding),
+                None => encoding,
                 Some(pair) => {
                     encoding.merge_with(pair);
-                    Ok(encoding)
+                    encoding
                 }
             }
+        };
+
+        // 3. Then we pad if needed
+        if let Some(params) = &self.padding {
+            // We can only pad for a given size. If the Strategy is BatchLongest, it will be done
+            // when we handle a batch
+            if let PaddingStrategy::Fixed(size) = params.strategy {
+                final_encoding.pad(
+                    size,
+                    params.pad_id,
+                    params.pad_type_id,
+                    &params.pad_token,
+                    &params.direction,
+                );
+            }
         }
+
+        Ok(final_encoding)
     }
 
     /// Add the given tokens to the added vocabulary
diff --git a/tokenizers/src/utils.rs b/tokenizers/src/utils.rs
index 6f45ce5f..dc4709d9 100644
--- a/tokenizers/src/utils.rs
+++ b/tokenizers/src/utils.rs
@@ -1,15 +1,35 @@
-use crate::tokenizer::{Encoding, Result};
+use crate::tokenizer::{Encoding, PaddingDirection, Result};
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct TruncationParams {
+    pub max_length: usize,
+    pub strategy: TruncationStrategy,
+    pub stride: usize,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct PaddingParams {
+    pub strategy: PaddingStrategy,
+    pub direction: PaddingDirection,
+    pub pad_id: u32,
+    pub pad_type_id: u32,
+    pub pad_token: String,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub enum PaddingStrategy {
+    BatchLongest,
+    Fixed(usize),
+}
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub enum Error {
-    SequenceTooSmall,
     SecondSequenceNotProvided,
 }
 
 impl std::fmt::Display for Error {
     fn fmt(&self, fmt: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
         match self {
-            Error::SequenceTooSmall => write!(fmt, "Truncation error: Sequence is too small"),
             Error::SecondSequenceNotProvided => {
                 write!(fmt, "Truncation error: Second sequence not provided")
             }
@@ -18,7 +38,7 @@ impl std::fmt::Display for Error {
 }
 impl std::error::Error for Error {}
 
-#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq)]
 pub enum TruncationStrategy {
     LongestFirst,
     OnlyFirst,
@@ -28,19 +48,27 @@ pub enum TruncationStrategy {
 pub fn truncate_encodings(
     mut encoding: Encoding,
     mut pair_encoding: Option<Encoding>,
-    to_remove: usize,
-    strategy: TruncationStrategy,
-    stride: usize,
+    params: &TruncationParams,
 ) -> Result<(Encoding, Option<Encoding>)> {
-    if to_remove == 0 {
+    if params.max_length == 0 {
         return Ok((encoding, pair_encoding));
     }
 
-    match strategy {
+    match params.strategy {
         TruncationStrategy::LongestFirst => {
+            let total_length = encoding.get_ids().len()
+                + pair_encoding
+                    .as_ref()
+                    .map(|e| e.get_ids().len())
+                    .unwrap_or(0);
+            let to_remove = if total_length > params.max_length {
+                total_length - params.max_length
+            } else {
+                0
+            };
+
             let mut n_first = 0;
             let mut n_second = 0;
-
             for _ in 0..to_remove {
                 if pair_encoding.is_none()
                     || encoding.get_ids().len() > pair_encoding.as_ref().unwrap().get_ids().len()
@@ -51,13 +79,13 @@ pub fn truncate_encodings(
                 }
             }
 
-            encoding.truncate(encoding.get_ids().len() - n_first, stride);
+            encoding.truncate(encoding.get_ids().len() - n_first, params.stride);
             if let Some(encoding) = pair_encoding.as_mut() {
-                encoding.truncate(encoding.get_ids().len() - n_second, stride);
+                encoding.truncate(encoding.get_ids().len() - n_second, params.stride);
             }
         }
         TruncationStrategy::OnlyFirst | TruncationStrategy::OnlySecond => {
-            let target = if strategy == TruncationStrategy::OnlyFirst {
+            let target = if params.strategy == TruncationStrategy::OnlyFirst {
                 Ok(&mut encoding)
             } else if let Some(encoding) = pair_encoding.as_mut() {
                 Ok(encoding)
@@ -65,13 +93,37 @@ pub fn truncate_encodings(
                 Err(Box::new(Error::SecondSequenceNotProvided))
             }?;
 
-            if target.get_ids().len() <= to_remove {
-                return Err(Box::new(Error::SequenceTooSmall));
+            if target.get_ids().len() > params.max_length {
+                target.truncate(params.max_length, params.stride);
             }
-
-            target.truncate(target.get_ids().len() - to_remove, stride);
         }
     }
 
     Ok((encoding, pair_encoding))
 }
+
+pub fn pad_encodings(
+    mut encodings: Vec<Encoding>,
+    params: &PaddingParams,
+) -> Result<Vec<Encoding>> {
+    if encodings.is_empty() {
+        return Ok(encodings);
+    }
+
+    let pad_length = match params.strategy {
+        PaddingStrategy::Fixed(size) => size,
+        PaddingStrategy::BatchLongest => encodings.iter().map(|e| e.get_ids().len()).max().unwrap(),
+    };
+
+    for encoding in encodings.iter_mut() {
+        encoding.pad(
+            pad_length,
+            params.pad_id,
+            params.pad_type_id,
+            &params.pad_token,
+            &params.direction,
+        );
+    }
+
+    Ok(encodings)
+}