diff --git a/doc/basics.md b/doc/basics.md
index a3a91a89..b3d856b1 100644
--- a/doc/basics.md
+++ b/doc/basics.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ An overview of what you need to know to use simdjson, with examples.
 * [Error Handling](#error-handling)
   * [Error Handling Example](#error-handling-example)
   * [Exceptions](#exceptions)
-* [Tree Walking and JSON Element Types](#tree-walking-and-json-element-types)
+* [Direct Access to the Raw String](#direct-access-to-the-raw-string)
 * [Newline-Delimited JSON (ndjson) and JSON lines](#newline-delimited-json-ndjson-and-json-lines)
 * [Thread Safety](#thread-safety)
 * [Standard Compliance](#standard-compliance)
@@ -725,61 +725,29 @@ int main(void) {
 }
 ```
 
+Direct Access to the Raw String
+--------------------------------
 
-Tree Walking and JSON Element Types
------------------------------------
+The simdjson library makes explicit assumptions about types. For examples, numbers
+must be integers (up to 64-bit integers) or binary64 floating-point numbers. Some users
+have different needs. For example, some users might want to support big integers.
+The library makes this possible by providing a `raw_json_token` method which returns
+a `std::string_view` instance containing the value as a string which you may then
+parse as you see fit.
 
-Sometimes you don't necessarily have a document with a known type, and are trying to generically
-inspect or walk over JSON elements. To do that, you can use iterators and the type() method. For
-example, here's a quick and dirty recursive function that verbosely prints the JSON document as JSON
-(* ignoring nuances like trailing commas and escaping strings, for brevity's sake):
-
-```c++
-void print_json(dom::element element) {
-  switch (element.type()) {
-    case dom::element_type::ARRAY:
-      cout << "[";
-      for (dom::element child : dom::array(element)) {
-        print_json(child);
-        cout << ",";
-      }
-      cout << "]";
-      break;
-    case dom::element_type::OBJECT:
-      cout << "{";
-      for (dom::key_value_pair field : dom::object(element)) {
-        cout << "\"" << field.key << "\": ";
-        print_json(field.value);
-      }
-      cout << "}";
-      break;
-    case dom::element_type::INT64:
-      cout << int64_t(element) << endl;
-      break;
-    case dom::element_type::UINT64:
-      cout << uint64_t(element) << endl;
-      break;
-    case dom::element_type::DOUBLE:
-      cout << double(element) << endl;
-      break;
-    case dom::element_type::STRING:
-      cout << std::string_view(element) << endl;
-      break;
-    case dom::element_type::BOOL:
-      cout << bool(element) << endl;
-      break;
-    case dom::element_type::NULL_VALUE:
-      cout << "null" << endl;
-      break;
-  }
-}
-
-void basics_treewalk_1() {
-  dom::parser parser;
-  print_json(parser.load("twitter.json"));
-}
+```C++
+simdjson::ondemand::parser parser;
+simdjson::padded_string docdata =  R"({"value":12321323213213213213213213213211223})"_padded;
+simdjson::ondemand::document doc = parser.iterate(docdata);
+simdjson::ondemand::object obj = doc.get_object();
+std::string_view token = obj["value"].raw_json_token();
+// token has value "12321323213213213213213213213211223"
 ```
 
+The `raw_json_token` method even works when the JSON value is a string. In such cases, it
+will return the complete string with the quotes and with eventual escaped sequences as in the
+source document.
+
 Newline-Delimited JSON (ndjson) and JSON lines
 ----------------------------------------------
 
diff --git a/tests/ondemand/ondemand_misc_tests.cpp b/tests/ondemand/ondemand_misc_tests.cpp
index 6717caa5..b3b06308 100644
--- a/tests/ondemand/ondemand_misc_tests.cpp
+++ b/tests/ondemand/ondemand_misc_tests.cpp
@@ -5,7 +5,32 @@ using namespace simdjson;
 
 namespace misc_tests {
   using namespace std;
-
+  simdjson_warn_unused bool big_integer() {
+    TEST_START();
+    simdjson::ondemand::parser parser;
+    simdjson::padded_string docdata =  R"({"value":12321323213213213213213213213211223})"_padded;
+    simdjson::ondemand::document doc;
+    ASSERT_SUCCESS(parser.iterate(docdata).get(doc));
+    simdjson::ondemand::object o;
+    ASSERT_SUCCESS(doc.get_object().get(o));
+    string_view token;
+    ASSERT_SUCCESS(o["value"].raw_json_token().get(token));
+    ASSERT_EQUAL(token, "12321323213213213213213213213211223");
+    return true;
+  }
+  simdjson_warn_unused bool big_integer_in_string() {
+    TEST_START();
+    simdjson::ondemand::parser parser;
+    simdjson::padded_string docdata =  R"({"value":"12321323213213213213213213213211223"})"_padded;
+    simdjson::ondemand::document doc;
+    ASSERT_SUCCESS(parser.iterate(docdata).get(doc));
+    simdjson::ondemand::object o;
+    ASSERT_SUCCESS(doc.get_object().get(o));
+    string_view token;
+    ASSERT_SUCCESS(o["value"].raw_json_token().get(token));
+    ASSERT_EQUAL(token, "\"12321323213213213213213213213211223\"");
+    return true;
+  }
   simdjson_warn_unused bool test_raw_json_token(string_view json, string_view expected_token, int expected_start_index = 0) {
     string title = "'";
     title.append(json.data(), json.length());
@@ -64,6 +89,8 @@ namespace misc_tests {
 
   bool run() {
     return
+           big_integer_in_string() &&
+           big_integer() &&
            raw_json_token() &&
            true;
   }
diff --git a/tests/ondemand/ondemand_readme_examples.cpp b/tests/ondemand/ondemand_readme_examples.cpp
index 5637fe46..902684d5 100644
--- a/tests/ondemand/ondemand_readme_examples.cpp
+++ b/tests/ondemand/ondemand_readme_examples.cpp
@@ -76,6 +76,29 @@ bool using_the_parsed_json_2() {
   TEST_SUCCEED();
 }
 
+  bool big_integer() {
+    TEST_START();
+    simdjson::ondemand::parser parser;
+    simdjson::padded_string docdata =  R"({"value":12321323213213213213213213213211223})"_padded;
+    simdjson::ondemand::document doc = parser.iterate(docdata);
+    simdjson::ondemand::object obj = doc.get_object();
+    string_view token = obj["value"].raw_json_token();
+    std::cout << token << std::endl;
+    // token == "12321323213213213213213213213211223"
+    TEST_SUCCEED();
+  }
+
+  bool big_integer_in_string() {
+    TEST_START();
+    simdjson::ondemand::parser parser;
+    simdjson::padded_string docdata =  R"({"value":"12321323213213213213213213213211223"})"_padded;
+    simdjson::ondemand::document doc = parser.iterate(docdata);
+    simdjson::ondemand::object obj = doc.get_object();
+    string_view token = obj["value"].raw_json_token();
+    std::cout << token << std::endl;
+    // token == "\"12321323213213213213213213213211223\""
+    TEST_SUCCEED();
+  }
 bool using_the_parsed_json_3() {
   TEST_START();
 
@@ -171,6 +194,8 @@ int main() {
     && basics_2()
     && using_the_parsed_json_1()
     && using_the_parsed_json_2()
+    && big_integer()
+    && big_integer_in_string()
     && using_the_parsed_json_3()
     && using_the_parsed_json_4()
     && using_the_parsed_json_5()