diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8ea6dae6..4bdace7e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 1.0.6
+
+* Add slicing through indexing for vectorized elements
+
 ## 1.0.5
 
 * feat: add thread lock to prevent racing condition when instantiating singletons
diff --git a/test_unstructured_inference/test_elements.py b/test_unstructured_inference/test_elements.py
index 89efd870..81db5f2f 100644
--- a/test_unstructured_inference/test_elements.py
+++ b/test_unstructured_inference/test_elements.py
@@ -472,3 +472,49 @@ def test_layoutelements_concatenate():
     assert joint.sources.tolist() == ["yolox", "yolox", "ocr", "ocr"]
     assert joint.element_class_ids.tolist() == [0, 1, 1, 2]
     assert joint.element_class_id_map == {0: "type0", 1: "type1", 2: "type2"}
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "test_elements",
+    [
+        TextRegions(
+            element_coords=np.array(
+                [
+                    [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0],
+                    [1.0, 0.0, 1.5, 1.0],
+                    [2.0, 0.0, 2.5, 1.0],
+                    [3.0, 0.0, 4.0, 1.0],
+                    [4.0, 0.0, 5.0, 1.0],
+                ]
+            ),
+            texts=np.array(["0", "1", "2", "3", "4"]),
+            sources=np.array(["foo", "foo", "foo", "foo", "foo"], dtype="<U3"),
+            source=np.str_("foo"),
+        ),
+        LayoutElements(
+            element_coords=np.array(
+                [
+                    [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0],
+                    [1.0, 0.0, 1.5, 1.0],
+                    [2.0, 0.0, 2.5, 1.0],
+                    [3.0, 0.0, 4.0, 1.0],
+                    [4.0, 0.0, 5.0, 1.0],
+                ]
+            ),
+            texts=np.array(["0", "1", "2", "3", "4"]),
+            sources=np.array(["foo", "foo", "foo", "foo", "foo"], dtype="<U3"),
+            source=np.str_("foo"),
+            element_probs=np.array([0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4]),
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_textregions_support_numpy_slicing(test_elements):
+    np.testing.assert_equal(test_elements[1:4].texts, np.array(["1", "2", "3"]))
+    np.testing.assert_equal(test_elements[0::2].texts, np.array(["0", "2", "4"]))
+    np.testing.assert_equal(test_elements[[1, 2, 4]].texts, np.array(["1", "2", "4"]))
+    np.testing.assert_equal(test_elements[np.array([1, 2, 4])].texts, np.array(["1", "2", "4"]))
+    np.testing.assert_equal(
+        test_elements[np.array([True, False, False, True, False])].texts, np.array(["0", "3"])
+    )
+    if isinstance(test_elements, LayoutElements):
+        np.testing.assert_almost_equal(test_elements[1:4].element_probs, np.array([0.1, 0.2, 0.3]))
diff --git a/unstructured_inference/__version__.py b/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
index f7b35997..029198d7 100644
--- a/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "1.0.5"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "1.0.6"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/unstructured_inference/inference/elements.py b/unstructured_inference/inference/elements.py
index 0c9b1a18..81647ced 100644
--- a/unstructured_inference/inference/elements.py
+++ b/unstructured_inference/inference/elements.py
@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ def __post_init__(self):
         # we convert to float so data type is more consistent (e.g., None will be np.nan)
         self.element_coords = self.element_coords.astype(float)
 
+    def __getitem__(self, indices) -> TextRegions:
+        return self.slice(indices)
+
     def slice(self, indices) -> TextRegions:
         """slice text regions based on indices"""
         return TextRegions(
diff --git a/unstructured_inference/inference/layoutelement.py b/unstructured_inference/inference/layoutelement.py
index b70ad651..5b4c6fda 100644
--- a/unstructured_inference/inference/layoutelement.py
+++ b/unstructured_inference/inference/layoutelement.py
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ def __eq__(self, other: object) -> bool:
             and np.array_equal(self.table_as_cells[mask], other.table_as_cells[mask])
         )
 
+    def __getitem__(self, indices):
+        return self.slice(indices)
+
     def slice(self, indices) -> LayoutElements:
         """slice and return only selected indices"""
         return LayoutElements(