diff --git a/hexlib/concurrency.py b/hexlib/concurrency.py
index d4d851e..34d3219 100644
--- a/hexlib/concurrency.py
+++ b/hexlib/concurrency.py
@@ -1,9 +1,65 @@
 from queue import Queue, Empty
 from multiprocessing import Process
+from multiprocessing import Queue as MPQueue
 from threading import Thread
 
+from hexlib.misc import ichunks
 
-def queue_iter(q: Queue, **get_args):
+
+class StatefulStreamWorker:
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        pass
+
+    def run(self, q: Queue):
+        for chunk in queue_iter(q, timeout=3):
+            self.process_chunk(chunk)
+
+    def process_chunk(self, chunk):
+        for item in chunk:
+            self.process(item)
+
+    def process(self, item) -> None:
+        raise NotImplementedError
+
+
+class StatefulStreamProcessor:
+    def __init__(self, worker_factory, chunk_size=128, processes=1):
+        self._chunk_size = 128
+        self._queue = MPQueue(maxsize=chunk_size)
+        self._process_count = processes
+        self._processes = []
+        self._factory = worker_factory
+        self._workers = []
+
+        if processes > 1:
+            for _ in range(processes):
+                worker = self._factory()
+                p = Process(target=worker.run, args=(self._queue,))
+                p.start()
+                self._processes.append(p)
+                self._workers.append(worker)
+        else:
+            self._workers.append(self._factory())
+
+    def injest(self, iterable):
+
+        if self._process_count > 1:
+            for chunk in ichunks(iterable, self._chunk_size):
+                self._queue.put(chunk)
+
+            for p in self._processes:
+                p.join()
+        else:
+            for item in iterable:
+                self._workers[0].process(item)
+
+    def get_results(self):
+        for worker in self._workers:
+            yield worker.results()
+
+
+def queue_iter(q: Queue, joinable=True, **get_args):
     while True:
         try:
             task = q.get(**get_args)
@@ -12,7 +68,8 @@ def queue_iter(q: Queue, **get_args):
                 break
 
             yield task
-            q.task_done()
+            if joinable:
+                q.task_done()
         except Empty:
             break
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
diff --git a/hexlib/misc.py b/hexlib/misc.py
index 91cbc04..0b341cd 100644
--- a/hexlib/misc.py
+++ b/hexlib/misc.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import atexit
+import itertools
 import os
 import sys
 import time
@@ -33,6 +34,15 @@ def chunks(lst: list, chunk_len: int):
         yield lst[i:i + chunk_len]
 
 
+def ichunks(iterable, chunk_len: int):
+    it = iter(iterable)
+    while True:
+        chunk = tuple(itertools.islice(it, chunk_len))
+        if not chunk:
+            break
+        yield chunk
+
+
 def rate_limit(per_second):
     min_interval = 1.0 / float(per_second)
 
diff --git a/hexlib/text.py b/hexlib/text.py
index 16d5b5f..86009ba 100644
--- a/hexlib/text.py
+++ b/hexlib/text.py
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ SINGLE_QUOTES = ("’", "`")
 SINGLE_QUOTE_TRANS = str.maketrans("".join(SINGLE_QUOTES), "".join(repeat("'", len(SINGLE_QUOTES))))
 
 PUNCTUATION = ".,;:\"!?/()|*=>"
-PUNCTUATION_TRANS = str.maketrans(PUNCTUATION, len(PUNCTUATION))
+PUNCTUATION_TRANS = str.maketrans(PUNCTUATION, " " * len(PUNCTUATION))
 
 
 def preprocess(text, lowercase=False, clean_html=False, remove_punctuation=False, remove_stopwords_en=False,
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6465cb2..56d3d27 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 
 setup(
     name="hexlib",
-    version="1.52",
+    version="1.53",
     description="Misc utility methods",
     author="simon987",
     author_email="me@simon987.net",