diff --git a/python/dolma/cli/deduper.py b/python/dolma/cli/deduper.py
index de6a43d5..d263d4ca 100644
--- a/python/dolma/cli/deduper.py
+++ b/python/dolma/cli/deduper.py
@@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ def run(cls, parsed_config: DeduperConfig):
             # perform some path validation to make sure we don't call the mixer with invalid config
             total_matching_documents = 0
             for document in parsed_config.documents:
-
                 if not any(
                     fnmatch.fnmatch(dict_config["dedupe"]["document_dir"], part) for part in document.split(os.sep)
                 ):
diff --git a/python/dolma/cli/mixer.py b/python/dolma/cli/mixer.py
index 2ac6c5c5..41f632c6 100644
--- a/python/dolma/cli/mixer.py
+++ b/python/dolma/cli/mixer.py
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ class StreamConfig:
             "from the file extension."
         ),
     )
+    document_dir: str = field(
+        default="documents", help="Folder in source path to replace with 'attributes' when looking for attributes"
+    )
 
 
 @dataclass
@@ -145,7 +148,6 @@ def run(cls, parsed_config: MixerConfig):
                 # perform some path validation to make sure we don't call the mixer with invalid config
                 total_matching_documents = 0
                 for document in stream_config.documents:
-
                     current_matching_documents = sum(1 for _ in glob_path(document))
                     if current_matching_documents == 0:
                         # only raise a warning if no documents are found for a single path
@@ -159,6 +161,7 @@ def run(cls, parsed_config: MixerConfig):
                 # populate the stream config dict
                 stream_config_dict["name"] = stream_config.name
                 stream_config_dict["documents"] = [str(d) for d in stream_config.documents]
+                stream_config_dict["document_dir"] = stream_config.document_dir
                 stream_config_dict["attributes"] = [str(a) for a in list(stream_config.attributes)]
                 stream_config_dict["output"] = {
                     "path": str(stream_config.output.path),
diff --git a/python/dolma/cli/tagger.py b/python/dolma/cli/tagger.py
index 9982ec05..9d29eafe 100644
--- a/python/dolma/cli/tagger.py
+++ b/python/dolma/cli/tagger.py
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ class TaggerConfig:
         default=False,
         help="If true, only print the configuration and exit without running the taggers.",
     )
+    document_dir: str = field(
+        default="documents",
+        help="The folder in source paths to replace with 'attributes' to store results, if not 'documents'",
+    )
 
 
 class TaggerCli(BaseCli):
@@ -140,6 +144,7 @@ def run(cls, parsed_config: TaggerConfig):
                 profile_output=parsed_config.profile.output,
                 profile_steps=parsed_config.profile.steps,
                 profile_sort_key=parsed_config.profile.sort_key,
+                document_dir=parsed_config.document_dir,
             )
 
 
diff --git a/python/dolma/core/runtime.py b/python/dolma/core/runtime.py
index ac5e2a23..8ebfa0d3 100644
--- a/python/dolma/core/runtime.py
+++ b/python/dolma/core/runtime.py
@@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ def create_and_run_tagger(
     profile_steps: Optional[int] = None,
     profile_sort_key: str = "tottime",
     profile_lines: int = 100,
+    document_dir: str = "documents",
 ):
     """This function creates a tagger and runs it on a list of documents.
 
@@ -444,7 +445,7 @@ def create_and_run_tagger(
 
     if destination is None:
         try:
-            destination = _make_paths_from_substitution(documents, "documents", f"attributes/{experiment}")
+            destination = _make_paths_from_substitution(documents, document_dir, f"attributes/{experiment}")
         except Exception as exp:
             raise RuntimeError("Could not make destination paths from documents paths") from exp
     elif isinstance(destination, str):
diff --git a/python/dolma/warc/linearizers.py b/python/dolma/warc/linearizers.py
index a99c0775..c4d588cd 100644
--- a/python/dolma/warc/linearizers.py
+++ b/python/dolma/warc/linearizers.py
@@ -143,3 +143,9 @@ def linearize(self, content: Union[str, bytes]) -> str:
         )
         self._flush()
         return output or ""
+
+
+@LinearizerRegistry.add("no-op")
+class NoOpLinearizer(BaseLinearizer):
+    def linearize(self, content: Union[str, bytes]) -> str:
+        return str(content)
diff --git a/python/dolma/warc/processor.py b/python/dolma/warc/processor.py
index 474c6ca9..a3d949d1 100644
--- a/python/dolma/warc/processor.py
+++ b/python/dolma/warc/processor.py
@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ def create_and_run_warc_pipeline(
     store_html_in_metadata: bool = False,
     skip_no_pre_taggers: bool = False,
     skip_no_post_taggers: bool = False,
+    skip_linearization: bool = False,
 ):
     with ExitStack() as stack:
         if metadata is None:
diff --git a/src/shard.rs b/src/shard.rs
index 226ba194..c66d6511 100644
--- a/src/shard.rs
+++ b/src/shard.rs
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ impl Shard {
     pub fn split_streams(streams: &Vec<StreamConfig>) -> Result<Vec<Shard>, IoError> {
         let mut shards: Vec<Shard> = Vec::new();
         for stream_config in streams {
+            let document_dir = format!(
+                "/{}/",
+                stream_config.document_dir.as_deref().unwrap_or("documents")
+            );
             let mut stream_shard_count = 0;
             log::info!("Computing shards for stream {}...", stream_config.name);
             let stream_inputs = find_objects_matching_patterns(&stream_config.documents)?;
@@ -50,7 +54,7 @@ impl Shard {
                     let mut attr_paths = Vec::new();
                     for prefix in stream_config.attributes.iter() {
                         let attr_prefix = format!("/attributes/{}/", prefix);
-                        let attr_path = input.replace("/documents/", &attr_prefix);
+                        let attr_path = input.replace(&document_dir, &attr_prefix);
                         attr_paths.push(attr_path);
                     }
                     (
@@ -135,13 +139,17 @@ impl Shard {
         // dataset is a strict subset of the original and is intended to be unshuffled and unsharded.
         let mut shards: Vec<Shard> = Vec::new();
         for stream_config in streams {
+            let document_dir = format!(
+                "/{}/",
+                stream_config.document_dir.as_deref().unwrap_or("documents")
+            );
             let stream_inputs = find_objects_matching_patterns(&stream_config.documents)?;
             let input_count = stream_inputs.len();
             let inputs = stream_inputs.into_iter().map(|input| {
                 let mut attr_paths = Vec::new();
                 for prefix in stream_config.attributes.iter() {
                     let attr_prefix = format!("/attributes/{}/", prefix);
-                    let attr_path = input.replace("/documents/", &attr_prefix);
+                    let attr_path = input.replace(&document_dir, &attr_prefix);
                     attr_paths.push(attr_path);
                 }
                 DocumentPaths {
@@ -152,10 +160,11 @@ impl Shard {
 
             for input in inputs {
                 let doc_path_clone = input.doc_path.clone();
-                let output_suffix = doc_path_clone.split("/documents/").last().unwrap();
+                let output_suffix = doc_path_clone.split(&document_dir).last().unwrap();
                 let output = format!(
-                    "{}/documents/{}",
+                    "{}{}{}",
                     stream_config.output.path.clone(),
+                    document_dir,
                     output_suffix
                 );
                 log::info!("Creating shard for {}", output);
@@ -543,6 +552,7 @@ pub mod shard_config {
         pub span_replacement: Option<Vec<SpanReplacementConfig>>,
         pub output: StreamOutputConfig,
         pub compression: Option<CompressionConfig>,
+        pub document_dir: Option<String>,
     }
 
     #[derive(Serialize, Deserialize, Clone)]
diff --git a/tests/config/alt-path-mixer.json b/tests/config/alt-path-mixer.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cdcbe596
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/config/alt-path-mixer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{
+  "streams": [
+    {
+      "name": "mixer-test",
+      "documents": [
+        "tests/data/provided/alternative_term/*.gz"
+      ],
+      "document_dir":"alternative_term",
+      "output": {
+        "path": "tests/work/output/mixer",
+        "max_size_in_bytes": 100000
+      },
+      "attributes": [
+        "pii",
+        "toxicity"
+      ],
+      "filter": {
+        "include": [
+          "$.metadata[?(@.length < 10000)]"
+        ],
+        "exclude": [
+          "$.metadata[?(@.length < 500)]",
+          "$.attributes[?(@.pii.too_much_pii == true)]",
+          "$.attributes[?(@.toxicity > 0.8)]"
+        ]
+      }
+    }
+  ],
+  "work_dir": {
+    "input": "tests/work/temp/mixer/input",
+    "output": "tests/work/temp/mixer/output"
+  },
+  "processes": 1
+}
diff --git a/tests/data/provided/alternative_term/000.json.gz b/tests/data/provided/alternative_term/000.json.gz
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f5419508
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/data/provided/alternative_term/000.json.gz differ
diff --git a/tests/python/test_mixer.py b/tests/python/test_mixer.py
index 68ea1721..5c6d4718 100644
--- a/tests/python/test_mixer.py
+++ b/tests/python/test_mixer.py
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 EMAIL_SPANS_JQ = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "config/email-spans-jq.yaml"
 FILTER_BY_SPANS = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "config/filter-by-spans.json"
 MIXER = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "config/mixer.json"
+ALT_DOC_PATH_MIXER = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "config/alt-path-mixer.json"
+
 PARAGRAPH_SPANS = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "config/paragraph-spans.json"
 
 
@@ -150,6 +152,35 @@ def test_remote_input_remote_output(self):
         provided = self.checkAndRemoveProvenance(provided)
         self.assertEqual(expected, provided)
 
+    def test_alt_doc_path_mixer(self):
+        if self.remote_test_prefix is None:
+            return self.skipTest("Skipping AWS tests")
+
+        with open(ALT_DOC_PATH_MIXER, mode="r", encoding="utf8") as f:
+            config = json.load(f)
+
+        # keep track of local output path
+        local_input = config["streams"][0]["documents"][0]
+        local_output = config["streams"][0]["output"]["path"]
+
+        # replace results path with s3 path
+        config["streams"][0]["output"]["path"] = f"{self.remote_test_prefix}/{local_output}"
+
+        # upload local input to s3, replace local input with s3 path
+        config["streams"][0]["documents"][0] = f"{self.remote_test_prefix}/{local_input}"
+
+        with NamedTemporaryFile("w") as f:
+            json.dump(config, f)
+            f.flush()
+
+            main(argv=["-c", f.name, "mix"])
+
+        download_s3_prefix(f"{self.remote_test_prefix}/tests/work", "tests/work/remote")
+        expected = load_jsonl("tests/data/expected/mixer.json.gz")
+        provided = load_jsonl("tests/work/remote/output/mixer/mixer-test-0000.json.gz")
+        provided = self.checkAndRemoveProvenance(provided)
+        self.assertEqual(expected, provided)
+
     def test_remote_input_local_output(self):
         if self.remote_test_prefix is None:
             return self.skipTest("Skipping AWS tests")
diff --git a/tests/python/test_paths.py b/tests/python/test_paths.py
index e920af74..df758e22 100644
--- a/tests/python/test_paths.py
+++ b/tests/python/test_paths.py
@@ -295,7 +295,6 @@ def test_split_glob(self):
 
 class TestSplitExt(TestCase):
     def test_file(self):
-
         prot, parts, ext = split_ext("file.txt")
 
         self.assertEqual(prot, "")
@@ -318,7 +317,6 @@ def test_file(self):
         self.assertEqual(ext, ".")
 
     def test_path(self):
-
         prot, parts, ext = split_ext("path/to/file.txt")
 
         self.assertEqual(prot, "")
diff --git a/tests/python/test_warc.py b/tests/python/test_warc.py
index 04f0e9a7..bd70da91 100644
--- a/tests/python/test_warc.py
+++ b/tests/python/test_warc.py
@@ -103,3 +103,59 @@ def test_pretag_html(self):
             {"by_4_0", "by_3_0"},
         )
         self.assertIn("cc_re__cc_re__cc_by_4_0", sample1[2]["attributes"])
+
+    def test_skip_linearization(self):
+        """Test that when skip_linearization is True, the raw HTML content is preserved."""
+        outputs = self._run_pipeline_with_skip_linearization()
+        self.assertEqual(len(outputs), 2)
+        self.assertIn("sample-0000.jsonl.gz", outputs)
+        self.assertIn("sample-0001.jsonl.gz", outputs)
+
+        sample0 = outputs["sample-0000.jsonl.gz"]
+        sample1 = outputs["sample-0001.jsonl.gz"]
+
+        # Check that we got some documents
+        self.assertGreater(len(sample0), 0)
+        self.assertGreater(len(sample1), 0)
+
+        # For all documents, verify they contain raw HTML instead of linearized text
+        for sample in chain(sample0, sample1):
+            # HTML content should be in the text field
+            self.assertIn("<", sample["text"])
+            self.assertIn(">", sample["text"])
+
+            # Common HTML tags that should be present in raw HTML
+            html_indicators = ["<html", "<body", "<div", "<p"]
+            self.assertTrue(any(indicator in sample["text"].lower() for indicator in html_indicators))
+
+            # Basic metadata should still be present
+            self.assertEqual(sample["version"], "v0")
+            self.assertEqual(sample["source"], "test")
+            self.assertIn("warc_url", sample["metadata"])
+            self.assertIn("url", sample["metadata"])
+            self.assertIn("warc_date", sample["metadata"])
+            self.assertIn("warc_filename", sample["metadata"])
+            self.assertIn("content_type", sample["metadata"])
+
+    def _run_pipeline_with_skip_linearization(self) -> Dict[str, List[dict]]:
+        """Helper method to run pipeline with skip_linearization=True."""
+        create_and_run_warc_pipeline(
+            documents=[f"{DATA_PATH}/*.warc.gz"],
+            destination=[self.tempdir],
+            num_processes=1,
+            ignore_existing=False,
+            debug=True,
+            source_name="test",
+            skip_no_pre_taggers=False,
+            skip_no_post_taggers=False,
+            store_html_in_metadata=False,
+            linearizer_name="no-op",
+            pre_taggers=["cc_re"],
+            post_taggers=["lingua_1e2"],
+        )
+        outputs: Dict[str, List[dict]] = {}
+        for fn in os.listdir(self.tempdir):
+            with smart_open.open(os.path.join(self.tempdir, fn), mode="rt", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+                for ln in f:
+                    outputs.setdefault(fn, []).append(json.loads(ln))
+        return outputs
diff --git a/tests/python/utils.py b/tests/python/utils.py
index 9813f2d3..a96c24df 100644
--- a/tests/python/utils.py
+++ b/tests/python/utils.py
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ def skip_aws_tests() -> bool:
     return (dolma_tests_skip or "false").lower() == "true"
 
 
-def upload_test_documents(local_input: str, test_prefix: str) -> Tuple[str, str]:
-    remote_input = f"{test_prefix}/input/documents"
-    remote_output = f"{test_prefix}/output/documents"
+def upload_test_documents(local_input: str, test_prefix: str, document_dir: str = "documents") -> Tuple[str, str]:
+    remote_input = f"{test_prefix}/input/{document_dir}"
+    remote_output = f"{test_prefix}/output/{document_dir}"
 
     for i, local_fp in enumerate(glob_path(local_input)):
         remote_fp = f"{remote_input}/{i:05d}.json.gz"
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ def upload_s3_prefix(s3_prefix: str, local_prefix: str):
     bucket_name, prefix = parse_s3_path(s3_prefix)
 
     for local_fp in glob_path(local_prefix):
+        print(f"LOCAL_FP {local_fp}")
         name = local_fp.replace(local_prefix, "").lstrip("/")
         s3.upload_file(Bucket=bucket_name, Key=f"{prefix}/{name}", Filename=local_fp)
 
@@ -167,9 +168,11 @@ def writeUnits(
 
         return [str(p) for p in file_paths]
 
-    def writeDocs(self, docs: List[str], partitions: int = 1, ext_dir: Optional[Path] = None) -> List[str]:
+    def writeDocs(
+        self, docs: List[str], partitions: int = 1, ext_dir: Optional[Path] = None, unit_type: str = "documents"
+    ) -> List[str]:
         encoded_docs = [{"id": str(i), "text": d, "source": __file__} for i, d in enumerate(docs)]
-        return self.writeUnits(units=encoded_docs, unit_type="documents", partitions=partitions, ext_dir=ext_dir)
+        return self.writeUnits(units=encoded_docs, unit_type=unit_type, partitions=partitions, ext_dir=ext_dir)
 
     def writeAttributes(
         self,