diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 63f0fc24..26dbc56f 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ else
 	CFLAGS += -O3
 endif
 
-MAINEXECUTABLES=parse minify
+MAINEXECUTABLES=parse minify json2json
 TESTEXECUTABLES=jsoncheck numberparsingcheck stringparsingcheck 
 COMPARISONEXECUTABLES=minifiercompetition parsingcompetition  allparserscheckfile
 
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ test: jsoncheck numberparsingcheck stringparsingcheck
 	./numberparsingcheck
 	./stringparsingcheck
 	./jsoncheck
+	./scripts/testjson2json.sh
 	@echo 
 	@tput setaf 2
 	@echo "It looks like the code is good!"
@@ -90,6 +91,10 @@ minifiercompetition: benchmark/minifiercompetition.cpp $(HEADERS) $(MINIFIERHEAD
 minify: tools/minify.cpp $(HEADERS) $(MINIFIERHEADERS) $(LIBFILES) $(MINIFIERLIBFILES)
 	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -o minify $(MINIFIERLIBFILES) $(LIBFILES) tools/minify.cpp -I. 
 
+json2json: tools/json2json.cpp $(HEADERS) $(LIBFILES)
+	$(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -o json2json $ tools/json2json.cpp $(LIBFILES) -I. 
+
+
 ujdecode.o: $(UJSON4C_INCLUDE)
 	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c dependencies/ujson4c/src/ujdecode.c 
 
diff --git a/include/simdjson/jsonformatutils.h b/include/simdjson/jsonformatutils.h
index 13386ec7..be7aedd8 100644
--- a/include/simdjson/jsonformatutils.h
+++ b/include/simdjson/jsonformatutils.h
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ static inline void print_with_escapes(const unsigned char *src) {
       putchar('\\');
       putchar('n');
       break;
+    case '\r':
+      putchar('\\');
+      putchar('r');
+      break;
     case '\"':
       putchar('\\');
       putchar('"');
@@ -23,7 +27,7 @@ static inline void print_with_escapes(const unsigned char *src) {
       break;
     default:
       if (*src <= 0x1F) {
-        printf("\\u%x", *src);
+        printf("\\u%04x", *src);
       } else
         putchar(*src);
     }
diff --git a/include/simdjson/parsedjson.h b/include/simdjson/parsedjson.h
index 25947bba..a20709e5 100644
--- a/include/simdjson/parsedjson.h
+++ b/include/simdjson/parsedjson.h
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ public:
   // print the json to stdout (should be valid)
   // return false if the tape is likely wrong (e.g., you did not parse a valid
   // JSON).
+  WARN_UNUSED
   bool printjson() {
     size_t tapeidx = 0;
     u64 tape_val = tape[tapeidx];
@@ -224,6 +225,73 @@ public:
     return true;
   }
 
+  bool dump_raw_tape() {
+    size_t tapeidx = 0;
+    u64 tape_val = tape[tapeidx++];
+    u8 type = (tape_val >> 56);
+    size_t howmany = 0;
+    if (type == 'r') {
+      howmany = tape_val & JSONVALUEMASK;
+    } else {
+      printf("Error: no starting root node?");
+      return false;
+    }
+    for (; tapeidx < howmany; tapeidx++) {
+      tape_val = tape[tapeidx];
+      u64 payload = tape_val & JSONVALUEMASK;
+      type = (tape_val >> 56);
+      switch (type) {
+      case '"': // we have a string
+        printf("string: ");
+        putchar('"');
+        print_with_escapes((const unsigned char *)(string_buf + payload));
+        putchar('"');
+        printf("\n");
+        break;
+      case 'l': // we have a long int
+        if (tapeidx + 1 >= howmany)
+          return false;
+        printf("integer: ");
+        printf("%" PRId64, (int64_t)tape[++tapeidx]);
+        break;
+      case 'd': // we have a double
+        printf("float: ");
+        if (tapeidx + 1 >= howmany)
+          return false;
+        printf("%f", *((double *)&tape[++tapeidx]));
+        break;
+      case 'n': // we have a null
+        printf("null");
+        break;
+      case 't': // we have a true
+        printf("true");
+        break;
+      case 'f': // we have a false
+        printf("false");
+        break;
+      case '{': // we have an object
+        printf("{");
+        break;
+      case '}': // we end an object
+        printf("}");
+        break;
+      case '[': // we start an array
+        printf("[");
+        break;
+      case ']': // we end an array
+        printf("]");
+        break;
+      case 'r': // we start and end with the root node
+        printf("end of root");
+        return false;
+      default:
+        return false;
+      }
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+
   // all elements are stored on the tape using a 64-bit word.
   //
   // strings, double and ints are stored as
diff --git a/scripts/testjson2json.sh b/scripts/testjson2json.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..c01ef828
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/testjson2json.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+TMPDIR1=$(mktemp -d -t simdjson1)
+TMPDIR2=$(mktemp -d -t simdjson2)
+
+trap "exit 1"         HUP INT PIPE QUIT TERM
+trap "rm -rf $TMPDIR1 $TMPDIR2" EXIT
+
+function founderror() {
+  echo "code is wrong"
+  exit 1
+}
+
+make minify json2json
+for i in `cd jsonexamples && ls -1 *.json`; do
+  echo $i
+  ./json2json jsonexamples/$i > $TMPDIR1/$i
+  ./json2json $TMPDIR1/$i > $TMPDIR2/$i
+  cmp $TMPDIR1/$i $TMPDIR2/$i
+  retVal=$?
+  if [ $retVal -ne 0 ]; then
+    founderror
+  fi
+  ./minify $TMPDIR1/$i > $TMPDIR1/minify$i
+  ./minify $TMPDIR2/$i > $TMPDIR2/minify$i
+  cmp $TMPDIR1/minify$i $TMPDIR2/minify$i
+  retVal=$?
+  if [ $retVal -ne 0 ]; then
+    founderror
+  fi
+  ./json2json $TMPDIR1/minify$i > $TMPDIR2/bisminify$i
+  cmp $TMPDIR1/$i $TMPDIR2/bisminify$i
+  retVal=$?
+  if [ $retVal -ne 0 ]; then
+    founderror
+  fi
+done
+echo "test successful"
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/src/stage34_unified.cpp b/src/stage34_unified.cpp
index 309ce86a..ce09582f 100644
--- a/src/stage34_unified.cpp
+++ b/src/stage34_unified.cpp
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@ bool unified_machine(const u8 *buf, size_t len, ParsedJson &pj) {
   }
 #ifdef SIMDJSON_ALLOWANYTHINGINROOT
   depth--; // for fall-through cases (e.g., documents containing just a string)
+  pj.annotate_previousloc(pj.containing_scope_offset[depth],
+                          pj.get_current_loc());
 #endif     // ALLOWANYTHINGINROOT
 
 start_continue:
diff --git a/tools/json2json.cpp b/tools/json2json.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d383cc55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/json2json.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "simdjson/jsonparser.h"
+#include "simdjson/jsonioutil.h"
+
+using namespace std;
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
+  int c;
+  bool rawdump = false;
+
+  while ((c = getopt (argc, argv, "d")) != -1)
+    switch (c)
+      {
+      case 'd':
+        rawdump = true;
+        break;
+      default:
+        abort ();
+      }
+  if (optind >= argc) {
+    cerr << "Reads json in, out the result of the parsing. " << endl;  
+    cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " <jsonfile>" << endl;
+    exit(1);
+  }
+  const char * filename = argv[optind];
+  if(optind + 1 < argc) {
+    cerr << "warning: ignoring everything after " << argv[optind  + 1] << endl;
+  }
+  std::string_view p;
+  try {
+    p = get_corpus(filename);
+  } catch (const std::exception& e) { // caught by reference to base
+    std::cout << "Could not load the file " << filename << std::endl;
+    return EXIT_FAILURE;
+  }
+  ParsedJson pj;
+  bool allocok = pj.allocateCapacity(p.size(), 1024);
+  if(!allocok) {
+    std::cerr << "failed to allocate memory" << std::endl;
+    return EXIT_FAILURE;
+  }
+  bool is_ok = json_parse(p, pj); // do the parsing, return false on error
+  if (!is_ok) {
+    std::cerr << " Parsing failed. " << std::endl;
+    return EXIT_FAILURE;
+  }
+  is_ok = rawdump ? pj.dump_raw_tape() : pj.printjson();
+  if(!is_ok) {
+    std::cerr << " Could not print out parsed result. " << std::endl;
+    return EXIT_FAILURE;      
+  }
+  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}