diff --git a/model2vec/distill/tokenizer.py b/model2vec/distill/tokenizer.py
index 173a2f2..e6c3087 100644
--- a/model2vec/distill/tokenizer.py
+++ b/model2vec/distill/tokenizer.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import json
 import logging
+from typing import Any
 
 from tokenizers import Tokenizer
 
@@ -36,11 +37,11 @@ def remove_tokens(tokenizer: Tokenizer, tokens_to_remove: list[str]) -> Tokenize
             logger.info("No tokens to remove.")
         return Tokenizer.from_str(tokenizer.to_str())
 
-    tokenizer_data = json.loads(tokenizer.to_str())
+    tokenizer_data: dict[str, Any] = json.loads(tokenizer.to_str())
 
     # Find all added tokens
-    added_tokens = tokenizer_data["added_tokens"]
-    added_tokens_str = {token["content"] for token in added_tokens}
+    added_tokens: list[dict[str, Any]] = tokenizer_data.get("added_tokens", [])
+    added_tokens_str: set[str] = {token["content"] for token in added_tokens}
 
     # Remove all added tokens from the list of tokens to remove.
     # Things will go bad if we keep them.
@@ -76,9 +77,9 @@ def remove_tokens(tokenizer: Tokenizer, tokens_to_remove: list[str]) -> Tokenize
         raise ValueError(f"Unknown model type {model_type}")
 
     # Reindex the special tokens (i.e., CLS and SEP for BertTokenizers.)
-    special_tokens_post_processor: dict[str, dict] = tokenizer_data["post_processor"]["special_tokens"]
-    for token, token_data in special_tokens_post_processor.items():
-        token_data["ids"] = [reindexed[token] for token in token_data["tokens"]]
+    added_tokens = tokenizer_data.get("added_tokens", [])
+    for token_data in added_tokens:
+        token_data["id"] = reindexed[token_data["content"]]
 
     # Reinitialize the tokenizer from the json.
     tokenizer = Tokenizer.from_str(json.dumps(tokenizer_data))