diff --git a/bertopic/representation/_cohere.py b/bertopic/representation/_cohere.py
index 8ca31c8f..a0c74434 100644
--- a/bertopic/representation/_cohere.py
+++ b/bertopic/representation/_cohere.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from scipy.sparse import csr_matrix
 from typing import Mapping, List, Tuple, Union, Callable
 from bertopic.representation._base import BaseRepresentation
-from bertopic.representation._utils import truncate_document
+from bertopic.representation._utils import truncate_document, validate_truncate_document_parameters
 
 
 DEFAULT_PROMPT = """
@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ def __init__(
         self.diversity = diversity
         self.doc_length = doc_length
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        validate_truncate_document_parameters(self.tokenizer, self.doc_length)
+
         self.prompts_ = []
 
     def extract_topics(
diff --git a/bertopic/representation/_langchain.py b/bertopic/representation/_langchain.py
index df5c4839..e7588df4 100644
--- a/bertopic/representation/_langchain.py
+++ b/bertopic/representation/_langchain.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from typing import Callable, Mapping, List, Tuple, Union
 
 from bertopic.representation._base import BaseRepresentation
-from bertopic.representation._utils import truncate_document
+from bertopic.representation._utils import truncate_document, validate_truncate_document_parameters
 
 DEFAULT_PROMPT = "What are these documents about? Please give a single label."
 
@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.diversity = diversity
         self.doc_length = doc_length
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        validate_truncate_document_parameters(self.tokenizer, self.doc_length)
 
     def extract_topics(
         self,
diff --git a/bertopic/representation/_llamacpp.py b/bertopic/representation/_llamacpp.py
index 83b18952..3fd3541b 100644
--- a/bertopic/representation/_llamacpp.py
+++ b/bertopic/representation/_llamacpp.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 from llama_cpp import Llama
 from typing import Mapping, List, Tuple, Any, Union, Callable
 from bertopic.representation._base import BaseRepresentation
-from bertopic.representation._utils import truncate_document
+from bertopic.representation._utils import truncate_document, validate_truncate_document_parameters
 
 
 DEFAULT_PROMPT = """
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.diversity = diversity
         self.doc_length = doc_length
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        validate_truncate_document_parameters(self.tokenizer, self.doc_length)
 
         self.prompts_ = []
 
diff --git a/bertopic/representation/_openai.py b/bertopic/representation/_openai.py
index 8fd25a1b..e05a9c66 100644
--- a/bertopic/representation/_openai.py
+++ b/bertopic/representation/_openai.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 from bertopic.representation._utils import (
     retry_with_exponential_backoff,
     truncate_document,
+    validate_truncate_document_parameters,
 )
 
 
@@ -169,6 +170,8 @@ def __init__(
         self.diversity = diversity
         self.doc_length = doc_length
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        validate_truncate_document_parameters(self.tokenizer, self.doc_length)
+
         self.prompts_ = []
 
         self.generator_kwargs = generator_kwargs
diff --git a/bertopic/representation/_textgeneration.py b/bertopic/representation/_textgeneration.py
index b028e575..ada27d38 100644
--- a/bertopic/representation/_textgeneration.py
+++ b/bertopic/representation/_textgeneration.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 from transformers.pipelines.base import Pipeline
 from typing import Mapping, List, Tuple, Any, Union, Callable
 from bertopic.representation._base import BaseRepresentation
-from bertopic.representation._utils import truncate_document
+from bertopic.representation._utils import truncate_document, validate_truncate_document_parameters
 
 
 DEFAULT_PROMPT = """
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.diversity = diversity
         self.doc_length = doc_length
         self.tokenizer = tokenizer
+        validate_truncate_document_parameters(self.tokenizer, self.doc_length)
 
         self.prompts_ = []
 
diff --git a/bertopic/representation/_utils.py b/bertopic/representation/_utils.py
index 2a99fd1f..255c8fbe 100644
--- a/bertopic/representation/_utils.py
+++ b/bertopic/representation/_utils.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 import random
 import time
+from typing import Union
 
 
-def truncate_document(topic_model, doc_length, tokenizer, document: str):
+def truncate_document(topic_model, doc_length: Union[int, None], tokenizer: Union[str, callable], document: str) -> str:
     """Truncate a document to a certain length.
 
     If you want to add a custom tokenizer, then it will need to have a `decode` and
@@ -58,6 +59,18 @@ def decode(self, doc_chunks):
     return document
 
 
+def validate_truncate_document_parameters(tokenizer, doc_length) -> Union[None, ValueError]:
+    """Validates parameters that are used in the function `truncate_document`."""
+    if tokenizer is None and doc_length is not None:
+        raise ValueError(
+            "Please select from one of the valid options for the `tokenizer` parameter: \n"
+            "{'char', 'whitespace', 'vectorizer'} \n"
+            "If `tokenizer` is of type callable ensure it has methods to encode and decode a document \n"
+        )
+    elif tokenizer is not None and doc_length is None:
+        raise ValueError("If `tokenizer` is provided, `doc_length` of type int must be provided as well.")
+
+
 def retry_with_exponential_backoff(
     func,
     initial_delay: float = 1,