diff --git a/haystack/components/preprocessors/document_cleaner.py b/haystack/components/preprocessors/document_cleaner.py
index 80f281beb..4248862d4 100644
--- a/haystack/components/preprocessors/document_cleaner.py
+++ b/haystack/components/preprocessors/document_cleaner.py
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ class DocumentCleaner:
         remove_empty_lines: bool = True,
         remove_extra_whitespaces: bool = True,
         remove_repeated_substrings: bool = False,
+        keep_id: bool = False,
         remove_substrings: Optional[List[str]] = None,
         remove_regex: Optional[str] = None,
     ):
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ class DocumentCleaner:
             which is supported by `TextFileToDocument` and `AzureOCRDocumentConverter`.
         :param remove_substrings: List of substrings to remove from the text.
         :param remove_regex: Regex to match and replace substrings by "".
+        :param keep_id: keep the ids of the original documents
         """
 
         self.remove_empty_lines = remove_empty_lines
@@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ class DocumentCleaner:
         self.remove_repeated_substrings = remove_repeated_substrings
         self.remove_substrings = remove_substrings
         self.remove_regex = remove_regex
+        self.keep_id = keep_id
 
     @component.output_types(documents=List[Document])
     def run(self, documents: List[Document]):
@@ -98,7 +101,7 @@ class DocumentCleaner:
             if self.remove_repeated_substrings:
                 text = self._remove_repeated_substrings(text)
 
-            cleaned_docs.append(Document(content=text, meta=deepcopy(doc.meta)))
+            cleaned_docs.append(Document(content=text, meta=deepcopy(doc.meta), id=doc.id if self.keep_id else ""))
 
         return {"documents": cleaned_docs}
 
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/add-keep-id-to-document-cleaner-2a9854b5f195bb78.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/add-keep-id-to-document-cleaner-2a9854b5f195bb78.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..805c811d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/add-keep-id-to-document-cleaner-2a9854b5f195bb78.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+enhancements:
+  - |
+    The `DocumentCleaner` class has the optional attribute `keep_id` that if set to True it keeps the document ids unchanged after cleanup.
diff --git a/test/components/preprocessors/test_document_cleaner.py b/test/components/preprocessors/test_document_cleaner.py
index 2aaf2f370..0acd9e8e8 100644
--- a/test/components/preprocessors/test_document_cleaner.py
+++ b/test/components/preprocessors/test_document_cleaner.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ class TestDocumentCleaner:
         assert cleaner.remove_repeated_substrings is False
         assert cleaner.remove_substrings is None
         assert cleaner.remove_regex is None
+        assert cleaner.keep_id is False
 
     def test_non_text_document(self, caplog):
         with caplog.at_level(logging.WARNING):
@@ -130,3 +131,11 @@ class TestDocumentCleaner:
         for doc, cleaned_doc in zip(documents, result["documents"]):
             assert doc.meta == cleaned_doc.meta
             assert cleaned_doc.content == "Text."
+
+    def test_keep_id_does_not_alter_document_ids(self):
+        cleaner = DocumentCleaner(keep_id=True)
+        documents = [Document(content="Text. ", id="1"), Document(content="Text. ", id="2")]
+        result = cleaner.run(documents=documents)
+        assert len(result["documents"]) == 2
+        assert result["documents"][0].id == "1"
+        assert result["documents"][1].id == "2"