diff --git a/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/word_counts.py b/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/word_counts.py
index 8f4099c..03ae137 100644
--- a/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/word_counts.py
+++ b/wordfreq_builder/wordfreq_builder/word_counts.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ def count_tokens(filename):
     counts = defaultdict(int)
     with open(filename, encoding='utf-8', errors='replace') as infile:
         for line in infile:
-            for token in simple_tokenize(line.strip()):
+            for token in simple_tokenize(line):
                 counts[token] += 1
     return counts