diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 01872aa4a..c904f3963 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
-## 0.12.1-dev3
+## 0.12.1-dev4
 
 ### Enhancements
 
 * **Add "basic" chunking strategy.** Add baseline chunking strategy that includes all shared chunking behaviors without breaking chunks on section or page boundaries.
 * **Add overlap option for chunking.** Add option to overlap chunks. Intra-chunk and inter-chunk overlap are requested separately. Intra-chunk overlap is applied only to the second and later chunks formed by text-splitting an oversized chunk. Inter-chunk overlap may also be specified; this applies overlap between "normal" (not-oversized) chunks.
 * **Salesforce connector accepts private key path or value.** Salesforce parameter `private-key-file` has been renamed to `private-key`. Private key can be provided as path to file or file contents.
+* **Add "basic" chunking to ingest CLI.** Add options to ingest CLI allowing access to the new "basic" chunking strategy and overlap options.
 
 ### Features
 
diff --git a/docs/source/ingest/configs/chunking_config.rst b/docs/source/ingest/configs/chunking_config.rst
index efc6b57a9..06aa1de5f 100644
--- a/docs/source/ingest/configs/chunking_config.rst
+++ b/docs/source/ingest/configs/chunking_config.rst
@@ -13,8 +13,19 @@ in vector databases, enhancing the quality and relevance of the results.
 
 Configs
 ---------------------
-* ``chunk_elements (default False)``: Boolean flag whether to run chunking as part of the ingest process.
-* ``multipage_sections (default True)``: If True, sections can span multiple pages.
+* ``chunk_elements (default False)``: (Deprecated) Boolean flag whether to run chunking as part of
+  the ingest process. This option is deprecated in favor of the ``chunking_strategy`` option. This
+  option being set True has the same effect as ``chunking_strategy=by_title``.
+* ``chunking_strategy``: One of "basic" or "by_title". When omitted, no chunking is performed. The
+  "basic" strategy maximally fills each chunk with whole elements, up the specified size limits
+  (``max_characters`` and ``new_after_n_chars`` described below). A single element that exceeds this
+  length is divided into two or more chunks using text-splitting. A ``Table`` element is never
+  combined with any other element and appears as a chunk of its own or as a sequence of
+  ``TableChunk`` elements splitting is required. The "by_title" behaviors are the same except that
+  section and optionally page boundaries are respected such that two consecutive elements from
+  different sections appear in separate chunks.
+* ``multipage_sections (default True)``: When False, in addition to section boundaries, page
+  boundaries are also respected. Only operative for the "by_title" strategy.
 * ``combine_text_under_n_chars (default 500)``: Combines elements (for example a series of titles) until a section reaches a length of n characters. Defaults to `max_characters` which combines chunks whenever space allows. Specifying 0 for this argument suppresses combining of small chunks. Note this value is "capped" at the `new_after_n_chars` value since a value higher than that would not change this parameter's effect.
 * ``new_after_n_chars (default 1500)``: Cuts off new sections once they reach a length of n characters (soft max). Defaults to `max_characters` when not specified, which effectively disables any soft window. Specifying 0 for this argument causes each element to appear in a chunk by itself (although an element with text longer than `max_characters` will be still be split into two or more chunks).
 * ``max_characters (default 1500)``: Chunks elements text and text_as_html (if present) into chunks of length n characters (hard max)
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+    "text": "States Trustee.  28 U.S.C. § 586(b), 28 C.F.R. § 58.4(b) referencing 28 C.F.R. § 58.3(b).",
+    "metadata": {
+      "data_source": {
+        "url": "/home/runner/work/unstructured/unstructured/test_unstructured_ingest/../example-docs/handbook-1p.docx",
+        "permissions_data": [
+          {
+            "mode": 33188
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "filetype": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
+      "languages": [
+        "eng"
+      ],
+      "page_number": 2
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "CompositeElement",
+    "element_id": "1bf977cfa6a572f2f4be43b4bc0e7799",
+    "text": "Although this Handbook is not intended to be a complete statutory reference, the standing trustee’s primary statutory duties are set forth in 11",
+    "metadata": {
+      "data_source": {
+        "url": "/home/runner/work/unstructured/unstructured/test_unstructured_ingest/../example-docs/handbook-1p.docx",
+        "permissions_data": [
+          {
+            "mode": 33188
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "filetype": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
+      "languages": [
+        "eng"
+      ],
+      "page_number": 2
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "CompositeElement",
+    "element_id": "7dff671218580aaa5d24fbc571ba002b",
+    "text": "are set forth in 11 U.S.C. § 1302, which incorporates by reference some of the duties of chapter 7 trustees found in 11 U.S.C. § 704.  These duties",
+    "metadata": {
+      "data_source": {
+        "url": "/home/runner/work/unstructured/unstructured/test_unstructured_ingest/../example-docs/handbook-1p.docx",
+        "permissions_data": [
+          {
+            "mode": 33188
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "filetype": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
+      "languages": [
+        "eng"
+      ],
+      "page_number": 2
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "CompositeElement",
+    "element_id": "97bee5732e2b1b11659e9cdc431a2c15",
+    "text": "704.  These duties include, but are not limited to, the following:",
+    "metadata": {
+      "data_source": {
+        "url": "/home/runner/work/unstructured/unstructured/test_unstructured_ingest/../example-docs/handbook-1p.docx",
+        "permissions_data": [
+          {
+            "mode": 33188
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "filetype": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
+      "languages": [
+        "eng"
+      ],
+      "page_number": 2
+    }
+  },
+  {
+    "type": "CompositeElement",
+    "element_id": "8dfc77ab4089e09d4397e12306086c19",
+    "text": "Copyright",
+    "metadata": {
+      "data_source": {
+        "url": "/home/runner/work/unstructured/unstructured/test_unstructured_ingest/../example-docs/handbook-1p.docx",
+        "permissions_data": [
+          {
+            "mode": 33188
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      "filetype": "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document",
+      "languages": [
+        "eng"
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/element-type/aggregate-scores-element-type.tsv b/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/element-type/aggregate-scores-element-type.tsv
index 526bd6f08..fcadd93c2 100644
--- a/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/element-type/aggregate-scores-element-type.tsv
+++ b/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/element-type/aggregate-scores-element-type.tsv
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 metric	average	sample_sd	population_sd	count
-element-type-accuracy	0.814	0.108	0.077	2
+element-type-accuracy	0.542	0.476	0.389	3
diff --git a/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/element-type/all-docs-element-type-frequency.tsv b/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/element-type/all-docs-element-type-frequency.tsv
index aa368f746..fb6568275 100644
--- a/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/element-type/all-docs-element-type-frequency.tsv
+++ b/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/element-type/all-docs-element-type-frequency.tsv
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 filename	doctype	connector	element-type-accuracy
 IRS-form-1987.pdf	pdf	azure	0.89
+handbook-1p.docx	docx	local-single-file-basic-chunking	0.0
 page-with-formula.pdf	pdf	s3	0.737
diff --git a/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/text-extraction/aggregate-scores-cct.tsv b/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/text-extraction/aggregate-scores-cct.tsv
index e81eefc50..8041138ab 100644
--- a/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/text-extraction/aggregate-scores-cct.tsv
+++ b/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/text-extraction/aggregate-scores-cct.tsv
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 metric	average	sample_sd	population_sd	count
-cct-accuracy	0.806	0.247	0.24	16
-cct-%missing	0.025	0.033	0.032	16
+cct-accuracy	0.809	0.24	0.233	17
+cct-%missing	0.025	0.032	0.031	17
diff --git a/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/text-extraction/all-docs-cct.tsv b/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/text-extraction/all-docs-cct.tsv
index 53059f306..6770d8458 100644
--- a/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/text-extraction/all-docs-cct.tsv
+++ b/test_unstructured_ingest/metrics/text-extraction/all-docs-cct.tsv
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ example-10k.html	html	local	0.727	0.037
 fake-html-cp1252.html	html	local	0.659	0.0
 ideas-page.html	html	local	0.93	0.033
 UDHR_first_article_all.txt	txt	local-single-file	0.995	0.0
+handbook-1p.docx	docx	local-single-file-basic-chunking	0.858	0.029
 fake-html-cp1252.html	html	local-single-file-with-encoding	0.659	0.0
 layout-parser-paper-with-table.jpg	jpg	local-single-file-with-pdf-infer-table-structure	0.716	0.032
 layout-parser-paper.pdf	pdf	local-single-file-with-pdf-infer-table-structure	0.949	0.029
diff --git a/test_unstructured_ingest/src/local-single-file-basic-chunking.sh b/test_unstructured_ingest/src/local-single-file-basic-chunking.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..7786e1c63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test_unstructured_ingest/src/local-single-file-basic-chunking.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -e
+
+SRC_PATH=$(dirname "$(realpath "$0")")
+SCRIPT_DIR=$(dirname "$SRC_PATH")
+cd "$SCRIPT_DIR"/.. || exit 1
+OUTPUT_FOLDER_NAME=local-single-file-basic-chunking
+OUTPUT_ROOT=${OUTPUT_ROOT:-$SCRIPT_DIR}
+OUTPUT_DIR=$OUTPUT_ROOT/structured-output/$OUTPUT_FOLDER_NAME
+WORK_DIR=$OUTPUT_ROOT/workdir/$OUTPUT_FOLDER_NAME
+# -- use absolute path of input file to verify passing an absolute path --
+ABS_INPUT_PATH="$SCRIPT_DIR/../example-docs/handbook-1p.docx"
+max_processes=${MAX_PROCESSES:=$(python3 -c "import os; print(os.cpu_count())")}
+
+# shellcheck disable=SC1091
+source "$SCRIPT_DIR"/cleanup.sh
+# shellcheck disable=SC2317
+function cleanup() {
+  cleanup_dir "$OUTPUT_DIR"
+  cleanup_dir "$WORK_DIR"
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+RUN_SCRIPT=${RUN_SCRIPT:-./unstructured/ingest/main.py}
+
+PYTHONPATH=${PYTHONPATH:-.} "$RUN_SCRIPT" \
+  local \
+  --chunking-strategy basic \
+  --chunk-overlap 20 \
+  --chunk-max-characters 150 \
+  --input-path "$ABS_INPUT_PATH" \
+  --metadata-exclude coordinates,filename,file_directory,metadata.data_source.date_created,metadata.data_source.date_modified,metadata.data_source.date_processed,metadata.last_modified,metadata.detection_class_prob,metadata.parent_id,metadata.category_depth \
+  --num-processes "$max_processes" \
+  --output-dir "$OUTPUT_DIR" \
+  --reprocess \
+  --verbose \
+  --work-dir "$WORK_DIR"
+
+set +e
+"$SCRIPT_DIR"/check-diff-expected-output.sh $OUTPUT_FOLDER_NAME
+EXIT_CODE=$?
+set -e
+
+if [ "$EXIT_CODE" -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo "The last script run exited with a non-zero exit code: $EXIT_CODE."
+  # Handle the error or exit
+fi
+
+"$SCRIPT_DIR"/evaluation-ingest-cp.sh "$OUTPUT_DIR" "$OUTPUT_FOLDER_NAME"
+
+exit $EXIT_CODE
diff --git a/test_unstructured_ingest/test-ingest-src.sh b/test_unstructured_ingest/test-ingest-src.sh
index d8118d73f..4bd8a4f72 100755
--- a/test_unstructured_ingest/test-ingest-src.sh
+++ b/test_unstructured_ingest/test-ingest-src.sh
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ all_tests=(
   # NOTE(ryan): This test is disabled because it is triggering too many requests to the API
   # 'airtable-large.sh'
   'local-single-file.sh'
+  'local-single-file-basic-chunking.sh'
   'local-single-file-with-encoding.sh'
   'local-single-file-with-pdf-infer-table-structure.sh'
   'notion.sh'
diff --git a/unstructured/__version__.py b/unstructured/__version__.py
index 7b1a13587..2a145450a 100644
--- a/unstructured/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.12.1-dev3"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.12.1-dev4"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/unstructured/ingest/cli/interfaces.py b/unstructured/ingest/cli/interfaces.py
index 38aab066c..df2ad5a5e 100644
--- a/unstructured/ingest/cli/interfaces.py
+++ b/unstructured/ingest/cli/interfaces.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
 import json
 import os.path
 import typing as t
@@ -8,6 +10,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 
 import click
 from dataclasses_json.core import Json
+from typing_extensions import Self
 
 from unstructured.ingest.interfaces import (
     BaseConfig,
@@ -462,59 +465,112 @@ class CliChunkingConfig(ChunkingConfig, CliMixin):
                 ["--chunk-elements"],
                 is_flag=True,
                 default=False,
+                help="Deprecated, use --chunking-strategy instead.",
+            ),
+            click.Option(
+                ["--chunking-strategy"],
+                type=click.Choice(["basic", "by_title"]),
+                help="The rule-set to use to form chunks. Omit to disable chunking.",
             ),
             click.Option(
                 ["--chunk-multipage-sections"],
                 is_flag=True,
                 default=False,
+                help=(
+                    "Ignore page boundaries when chunking such that elements from two different"
+                    " pages can appear in the same chunk. Only operative for 'by_title'"
+                    " chunking-strategy."
+                ),
             ),
             click.Option(
                 ["--chunk-combine-text-under-n-chars"],
                 type=int,
                 default=500,
                 show_default=True,
+                help=(
+                    "Combine consecutive chunks when the first does not exceed this length and"
+                    " the second will fit without exceeding the hard-maximum length. Only"
+                    " operative for 'by_title' chunking-strategy."
+                ),
             ),
             click.Option(
                 ["--chunk-new-after-n-chars"],
                 type=int,
                 default=1500,
                 show_default=True,
+                help=(
+                    "Soft-maximum chunk length. Another element will not be added to a chunk of"
+                    " this length even when it would fit without exceeding the hard-maximum"
+                    " length."
+                ),
             ),
             click.Option(
                 ["--chunk-max-characters"],
                 type=int,
                 default=1500,
                 show_default=True,
+                help=(
+                    "Hard maximum chunk length. No chunk will exceed this length. An oversized"
+                    " element will be divided by text-splitting to fit this window."
+                ),
+            ),
+            click.Option(
+                ["--chunk-overlap"],
+                type=int,
+                default=0,
+                show_default=True,
+                help=(
+                    "Prefix chunk text with last overlap=N characters of prior chunk. Only"
+                    " applies to oversized chunks divided by text-splitting. To apply overlap to"
+                    " non-oversized chunks use the --overlap-all option."
+                ),
+            ),
+            click.Option(
+                ["--chunk-overlap-all"],
+                is_flag=True,
+                default=False,
+                help=(
+                    "Apply overlap to chunks formed from whole elements as well as those formed"
+                    " by text-splitting oversized elements. Overlap length is take from --overlap"
+                    " option value."
+                ),
             ),
         ]
         return options
 
     @classmethod
-    def from_dict(cls, kvs: Json, **kwargs):
+    def from_dict(cls, kvs: Json, **kwargs: t.Any) -> t.Optional[Self]:
+        """Extension of dataclass from_dict() to avoid a naming conflict with other CLI params.
+
+        This allows CLI arguments to be prefixed with "chunking_" during CLI invocation but doesn't
+        require that as part of the field names in this class
         """
-        Extension of the dataclass from_dict() to avoid a naming conflict with other CLI params.
-        This allows CLI arguments to be prepended with chunking_ during CLI invocation but
-        doesn't require that as part of the field names in this class
-        """
-        if isinstance(kvs, dict):
-            kvs = kvs.copy()
-            new_kvs = {}
-            if "chunk_elements" in kvs:
-                chunk_elements = kvs.pop("chunk_elements")
-                if not chunk_elements:
-                    return None
-                new_kvs["chunk_elements"] = chunk_elements
-            new_kvs.update(
-                {
-                    k[len("chunk_") :]: v  # noqa: E203
-                    for k, v in kvs.items()
-                    if k.startswith("chunk_")
-                },
+        if not isinstance(kvs, dict):
+            return super().from_dict(kvs=kvs, **kwargs)
+
+        options: t.Dict[str, t.Any] = kvs.copy()
+        chunk_elements = options.pop("chunk_elements", None)
+        chunking_strategy = options.pop("chunking_strategy", None)
+        # -- when neither are specified, chunking is not requested --
+        if not chunk_elements and not chunking_strategy:
+            return None
+
+        def iter_kv_pairs() -> t.Iterator[t.Tuple[str, t.Any]]:
+            # -- newer `chunking_strategy` option takes precedence over legacy `chunk_elements` --
+            if chunking_strategy:
+                yield "chunking_strategy", chunking_strategy
+            # -- but legacy case is still supported, equivalent to `chunking_strategy="by_title" --
+            elif chunk_elements:
+                yield "chunking_strategy", "by_title"
+
+            yield from (
+                (key[len("chunk_") :], value)
+                for key, value in options.items()
+                if key.startswith("chunk_")
             )
-            if len(new_kvs.keys()) == 0:
-                return None
-            return super().from_dict(kvs=new_kvs, **kwargs)
-        return super().from_dict(kvs=kvs, **kwargs)
+
+        new_kvs = dict(iter_kv_pairs())
+        return None if len(new_kvs) == 0 else super().from_dict(kvs=new_kvs, **kwargs)
 
 
 class CliPermissionsConfig(PermissionsConfig, CliMixin):
diff --git a/unstructured/ingest/enhanced_dataclass/json_mixin.py b/unstructured/ingest/enhanced_dataclass/json_mixin.py
index 493cebdf0..8ea50ddb0 100644
--- a/unstructured/ingest/enhanced_dataclass/json_mixin.py
+++ b/unstructured/ingest/enhanced_dataclass/json_mixin.py
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ class EnhancedDataClassJsonMixin(DataClassJsonMixin):
         allow_nan: bool = True,
         indent: t.Optional[t.Union[int, str]] = None,
         separators: t.Optional[t.Tuple[str, str]] = None,
-        default: t.Optional[t.Callable] = None,
+        default: t.Optional[t.Callable[..., t.Any]] = None,
         sort_keys: bool = False,
-        redact_sensitive=False,
-        redacted_text="***REDACTED***",
+        redact_sensitive: bool = False,
+        redacted_text: str = "***REDACTED***",
         apply_name_overload: bool = True,
-        **kw
+        **kw: t.Any,
     ) -> str:
         return json.dumps(
             self.to_dict(
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class EnhancedDataClassJsonMixin(DataClassJsonMixin):
             separators=separators,
             default=default,
             sort_keys=sort_keys,
-            **kw
+            **kw,
         )
 
     @classmethod
@@ -72,15 +72,15 @@ class EnhancedDataClassJsonMixin(DataClassJsonMixin):
         kvs: dataclasses_json_core.Json,
         *,
         infer_missing=False,
-        apply_name_overload=False
+        apply_name_overload=False,
     ) -> A:
         return dataclasses_json_core._decode_dataclass(cls, kvs, infer_missing)
 
     def to_dict(
         self,
-        encode_json=False,
-        redact_sensitive=False,
-        redacted_text="***REDACTED***",
+        encode_json: bool = False,
+        redact_sensitive: bool = False,
+        redacted_text: str = "***REDACTED***",
         apply_name_overload: bool = True,
     ) -> t.Dict[str, dataclasses_json_core.Json]:
         return _asdict(
diff --git a/unstructured/ingest/interfaces.py b/unstructured/ingest/interfaces.py
index 6feea21f4..6baf214ac 100644
--- a/unstructured/ingest/interfaces.py
+++ b/unstructured/ingest/interfaces.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from dataclasses_json import DataClassJsonMixin
 from dataclasses_json.core import Json, _decode_dataclass
 
+from unstructured.chunking.basic import chunk_elements
 from unstructured.chunking.title import chunk_by_title
 from unstructured.documents.elements import DataSourceMetadata
 from unstructured.embed.interfaces import BaseEmbeddingEncoder, Element
@@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ class FsspecConfig(FileStorageConfig):
 @dataclass
 class ReadConfig(BaseConfig):
     # where raw documents are stored for processing, and then removed if not preserve_downloads
-    download_dir: str = ""
+    download_dir: t.Optional[str] = ""
     re_download: bool = False
     preserve_downloads: bool = False
     download_only: bool = False
@@ -213,22 +214,43 @@ class EmbeddingConfig(BaseConfig):
 @dataclass
 class ChunkingConfig(BaseConfig):
     chunk_elements: bool = False
+    chunking_strategy: t.Optional[str] = None
     multipage_sections: bool = True
     combine_text_under_n_chars: int = 500
     max_characters: int = 1500
     new_after_n_chars: t.Optional[int] = None
+    overlap: int = 0
+    overlap_all: bool = False
 
     def chunk(self, elements: t.List[Element]) -> t.List[Element]:
-        if self.chunk_elements:
-            return chunk_by_title(
+        chunking_strategy = (
+            self.chunking_strategy
+            if self.chunking_strategy in ("basic", "by_title")
+            else "by_title"
+            if self.chunk_elements is True
+            else None
+        )
+        return (
+            chunk_by_title(
                 elements=elements,
-                multipage_sections=self.multipage_sections,
                 combine_text_under_n_chars=self.combine_text_under_n_chars,
                 max_characters=self.max_characters,
+                multipage_sections=self.multipage_sections,
                 new_after_n_chars=self.new_after_n_chars,
+                overlap=self.overlap,
+                overlap_all=self.overlap_all,
             )
-        else:
-            return elements
+            if chunking_strategy == "by_title"
+            else chunk_elements(
+                elements=elements,
+                max_characters=self.max_characters,
+                new_after_n_chars=self.new_after_n_chars,
+                overlap=self.overlap,
+                overlap_all=self.overlap_all,
+            )
+            if chunking_strategy == "basic"
+            else elements
+        )
 
 
 @dataclass
diff --git a/unstructured/partition/epub.py b/unstructured/partition/epub.py
index b27b90627..32891f3b1 100644
--- a/unstructured/partition/epub.py
+++ b/unstructured/partition/epub.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import IO, List, Optional
+from typing import IO, Any, List, Optional
 
 from unstructured.chunking import add_chunking_strategy
 from unstructured.documents.elements import Element, process_metadata
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def partition_epub(
     chunking_strategy: Optional[str] = None,
     languages: Optional[List[str]] = ["auto"],
     detect_language_per_element: bool = False,
-    **kwargs,
+    **kwargs: Any,
 ) -> List[Element]:
     """Partitions an EPUB document. The document is first converted to HTML and then
     partitioned using partition_html.