diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c624ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,271 @@
+# This code is licensed under the terms of the MIT license https://opensource.org/license/mit
+# Copyright (c) 2021 Marat Reymers
+
+run:
+  # Timeout for analysis, e.g. 30s, 5m.
+  # Default: 1m
+  timeout: 3m
+
+
+# This file contains only configs which differ from defaults.
+# All possible options can be found here https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/blob/master/.golangci.reference.yml
+linters-settings:
+  cyclop:
+    # The maximal code complexity to report.
+    # Default: 10
+    max-complexity: 30
+    # The maximal average package complexity.
+    # If it's higher than 0.0 (float) the check is enabled
+    # Default: 0.0
+    package-average: 10.0
+
+  errcheck:
+    # Report about not checking of errors in type assertions: `a := b.(MyStruct)`.
+    # Such cases aren't reported by default.
+    # Default: false
+    check-type-assertions: true
+
+  exhaustive:
+    # Program elements to check for exhaustiveness.
+    # Default: [ switch ]
+    check:
+      - switch
+      - map
+
+  exhaustruct:
+    # List of regular expressions to exclude struct packages and names from check.
+    # Default: []
+    exclude:
+      # std libs
+      - "^net/http.Client$"
+      - "^net/http.Cookie$"
+      - "^net/http.Request$"
+      - "^net/http.Response$"
+      - "^net/http.Server$"
+      - "^net/http.Transport$"
+      - "^net/url.URL$"
+      - "^os/exec.Cmd$"
+      - "^reflect.StructField$"
+      # public libs
+      - "^github.com/Shopify/sarama.Config$"
+      - "^github.com/Shopify/sarama.ProducerMessage$"
+      - "^github.com/mitchellh/mapstructure.DecoderConfig$"
+      - "^github.com/prometheus/client_golang/.+Opts$"
+      - "^github.com/spf13/cobra.Command$"
+      - "^github.com/spf13/cobra.CompletionOptions$"
+      - "^github.com/stretchr/testify/mock.Mock$"
+      - "^github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go.+Request$"
+      - "^github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go.FromDockerfile$"
+      - "^golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis.Analyzer$"
+      - "^google.golang.org/protobuf/.+Options$"
+      - "^gopkg.in/yaml.v3.Node$"
+
+  funlen:
+    # Checks the number of lines in a function.
+    # If lower than 0, disable the check.
+    # Default: 60
+    lines: 100
+    # Checks the number of statements in a function.
+    # If lower than 0, disable the check.
+    # Default: 40
+    statements: 50
+    # Ignore comments when counting lines.
+    # Default false
+    ignore-comments: true
+
+  gocognit:
+    # Minimal code complexity to report.
+    # Default: 30 (but we recommend 10-20)
+    min-complexity: 20
+
+  gocritic:
+    # Settings passed to gocritic.
+    # The settings key is the name of a supported gocritic checker.
+    # The list of supported checkers can be find in https://go-critic.github.io/overview.
+    settings:
+      captLocal:
+        # Whether to restrict checker to params only.
+        # Default: true
+        paramsOnly: false
+      underef:
+        # Whether to skip (*x).method() calls where x is a pointer receiver.
+        # Default: true
+        skipRecvDeref: false
+
+  gomnd:
+    # List of function patterns to exclude from analysis.
+    # Values always ignored: `time.Date`,
+    # `strconv.FormatInt`, `strconv.FormatUint`, `strconv.FormatFloat`,
+    # `strconv.ParseInt`, `strconv.ParseUint`, `strconv.ParseFloat`.
+    # Default: []
+    ignored-functions:
+      - flag.Arg
+      - flag.Duration.*
+      - flag.Float.*
+      - flag.Int.*
+      - flag.Uint.*
+      - os.Chmod
+      - os.Mkdir.*
+      - os.OpenFile
+      - os.WriteFile
+      - prometheus.ExponentialBuckets.*
+      - prometheus.LinearBuckets
+
+  gomodguard:
+    blocked:
+      # List of blocked modules.
+      # Default: []
+      modules:
+        - github.com/golang/protobuf:
+            recommendations:
+              - google.golang.org/protobuf
+            reason: "see https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/reference/go/faq#modules"
+        - github.com/satori/go.uuid:
+            recommendations:
+              - github.com/google/uuid
+            reason: "satori's package is not maintained"
+        - github.com/gofrs/uuid:
+            recommendations:
+              - github.com/google/uuid
+            reason: "gofrs' package is not go module"
+
+  govet:
+    # Enable all analyzers.
+    # Default: false
+    enable-all: true
+    # Disable analyzers by name.
+    # Run `go tool vet help` to see all analyzers.
+    # Default: []
+    disable:
+      - fieldalignment # too strict
+    # Settings per analyzer.
+    settings:
+      shadow:
+        # Whether to be strict about shadowing; can be noisy.
+        # Default: false
+        strict: true
+
+  nakedret:
+    # Make an issue if func has more lines of code than this setting, and it has naked returns.
+    # Default: 30
+    max-func-lines: 0
+
+  nolintlint:
+    # Exclude following linters from requiring an explanation.
+    # Default: []
+    allow-no-explanation: [ funlen, gocognit, lll ]
+    # Enable to require an explanation of nonzero length after each nolint directive.
+    # Default: false
+    require-explanation: true
+    # Enable to require nolint directives to mention the specific linter being suppressed.
+    # Default: false
+    require-specific: true
+
+  rowserrcheck:
+    # database/sql is always checked
+    # Default: []
+    packages:
+      - github.com/jmoiron/sqlx
+
+  tenv:
+    # The option `all` will run against whole test files (`_test.go`) regardless of method/function signatures.
+    # Otherwise, only methods that take `*testing.T`, `*testing.B`, and `testing.TB` as arguments are checked.
+    # Default: false
+    all: true
+
+
+linters:
+  disable-all: true
+  enable:
+    ## enabled by default
+    - errcheck # checking for unchecked errors, these unchecked errors can be critical bugs in some cases
+    - gosimple # specializes in simplifying a code
+    - govet # reports suspicious constructs, such as Printf calls whose arguments do not align with the format string
+    - ineffassign # detects when assignments to existing variables are not used
+    - staticcheck # is a go vet on steroids, applying a ton of static analysis checks
+    - typecheck # like the front-end of a Go compiler, parses and type-checks Go code
+    - unused # checks for unused constants, variables, functions and types
+    ## disabled by default
+    - asasalint # checks for pass []any as any in variadic func(...any)
+    - asciicheck # checks that your code does not contain non-ASCII identifiers
+    - bidichk # checks for dangerous unicode character sequences
+    - bodyclose # checks whether HTTP response body is closed successfully
+    - cyclop # checks function and package cyclomatic complexity
+    - dupl # tool for code clone detection
+    - durationcheck # checks for two durations multiplied together
+    - errname # checks that sentinel errors are prefixed with the Err and error types are suffixed with the Error
+    - errorlint # finds code that will cause problems with the error wrapping scheme introduced in Go 1.13
+    - execinquery # checks query string in Query function which reads your Go src files and warning it finds
+    - exhaustive # checks exhaustiveness of enum switch statements
+    - exportloopref # checks for pointers to enclosing loop variables
+    - forbidigo # forbids identifiers
+    - funlen # tool for detection of long functions
+    - gocheckcompilerdirectives # validates go compiler directive comments (//go:)
+    - gochecknoglobals # checks that no global variables exist
+    - gochecknoinits # checks that no init functions are present in Go code
+    - gochecksumtype # checks exhaustiveness on Go "sum types"
+    - gocognit # computes and checks the cognitive complexity of functions
+    - goconst # finds repeated strings that could be replaced by a constant
+    - gocritic # provides diagnostics that check for bugs, performance and style issues
+    - gocyclo # computes and checks the cyclomatic complexity of functions
+    - godot # checks if comments end in a period
+    - goimports # in addition to fixing imports, goimports also formats your code in the same style as gofmt
+    - gomnd # detects magic numbers
+    - gomoddirectives # manages the use of 'replace', 'retract', and 'excludes' directives in go.mod
+    - gomodguard # allow and block lists linter for direct Go module dependencies. This is different from depguard where there are different block types for example version constraints and module recommendations
+    - goprintffuncname # checks that printf-like functions are named with f at the end
+    - gosec # inspects source code for security problems
+    - lll # reports long lines
+    - loggercheck # checks key value pairs for common logger libraries (kitlog,klog,logr,zap)
+    - makezero # finds slice declarations with non-zero initial length
+    - mirror # reports wrong mirror patterns of bytes/strings usage
+    - musttag # enforces field tags in (un)marshaled structs
+    - nakedret # finds naked returns in functions greater than a specified function length
+    - nestif # reports deeply nested if statements
+    - nilerr # finds the code that returns nil even if it checks that the error is not nil
+    - nilnil # checks that there is no simultaneous return of nil error and an invalid value
+    - noctx # finds sending http request without context.Context
+    - nolintlint # reports ill-formed or insufficient nolint directives
+    - nonamedreturns # reports all named returns
+    - nosprintfhostport # checks for misuse of Sprintf to construct a host with port in a URL
+    - perfsprint # checks that fmt.Sprintf can be replaced with a faster alternative
+    - predeclared # finds code that shadows one of Go's predeclared identifiers
+    - promlinter # checks Prometheus metrics naming via promlint
+    - protogetter # reports direct reads from proto message fields when getters should be used
+    - reassign # checks that package variables are not reassigned
+    - revive # fast, configurable, extensible, flexible, and beautiful linter for Go, drop-in replacement of golint
+    - rowserrcheck # checks whether Err of rows is checked successfully
+    - sloglint # ensure consistent code style when using log/slog
+    - sqlclosecheck # checks that sql.Rows and sql.Stmt are closed
+    - stylecheck # is a replacement for golint
+    - tenv # detects using os.Setenv instead of t.Setenv since Go1.17
+    - testableexamples # checks if examples are testable (have an expected output)
+    - testifylint # checks usage of github.com/stretchr/testify
+    - testpackage # makes you use a separate _test package
+    - tparallel # detects inappropriate usage of t.Parallel() method in your Go test codes
+    - unconvert # removes unnecessary type conversions
+    - unparam # reports unused function parameters
+    - usestdlibvars # detects the possibility to use variables/constants from the Go standard library
+    - wastedassign # finds wasted assignment statements
+    - whitespace # detects leading and trailing whitespace
+
+issues:
+  # Maximum count of issues with the same text.
+  # Set to 0 to disable.
+  # Default: 3
+  max-same-issues: 50
+
+  exclude-rules:
+    - source: "(noinspection|TODO)"
+      linters: [ godot ]
+    - source: "//noinspection"
+      linters: [ gocritic ]
+    - path: "_test\\.go"
+      linters:
+        - bodyclose
+        - dupl
+        - funlen
+        - goconst
+        - gosec
+        - noctx
+        - wrapcheck
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/fastembed.go b/fastembed.go
index 11e0146..936831d 100644
--- a/fastembed.go
+++ b/fastembed.go
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import (
 	ort "github.com/yalue/onnxruntime_go"
 )
 
-// Enum-type representing the available embedding models
+// Enum-type representing the available embedding models.
 type EmbeddingModel string
 
 const (
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ const (
 // MLE5Large     EmbeddingModel = "fast-multilingual-e5-large"
 )
 
-// Struct to interface with a FastEmbed model
+// Struct to interface with a FastEmbed model.
 type FlagEmbedding struct {
 	tokenizer *tokenizer.Tokenizer
 	model     EmbeddingModel
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ type FlagEmbedding struct {
 // not setting this flag and the user setting it to false. We want the default value to be true.
 // As Go assigns a default(empty) value of "false" to bools, we can't distinguish
 // if the user set it to false or not set at all.
-// A pointer to bool will be nil if not set explicitly
+// A pointer to bool will be nil if not set explicitly.
 type InitOptions struct {
 	Model                EmbeddingModel
 	ExecutionProviders   []string
@@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ type InitOptions struct {
 	ShowDownloadProgress *bool
 }
 
-// Struct to represent FastEmbed model information
+// Struct to represent FastEmbed model information.
 type ModelInfo struct {
 	Model       EmbeddingModel
 	Dim         int
 	Description string
 }
 
-// Function to initialize a FastEmbed model
+// Function to initialize a FastEmbed model.
 func NewFlagEmbedding(options *InitOptions) (*FlagEmbedding, error) {
 	if options == nil {
 		options = &InitOptions{}
@@ -120,17 +120,15 @@ func NewFlagEmbedding(options *InitOptions) (*FlagEmbedding, error) {
 		maxLength: options.MaxLength,
 		modelPath: modelPath,
 	}, nil
-
 }
 
 // Function to cleanup the internal onnxruntime environment when it is no longer needed.
-func (f *FlagEmbedding) Destroy() {
-	ort.DestroyEnvironment()
+func (f *FlagEmbedding) Destroy() error {
+	return ort.DestroyEnvironment()
 }
 
-// Private function to embed a batch of input strings
+// Private function to embed a batch of input strings.
 func (f *FlagEmbedding) onnxEmbed(input []string) ([]([]float32), error) {
-
 	inputs := make([]tokenizer.EncodeInput, len(input))
 	for index, v := range input {
 		sequence := tokenizer.NewInputSequence(v)
@@ -212,7 +210,7 @@ func (f *FlagEmbedding) onnxEmbed(input []string) ([]([]float32), error) {
 // The batchSize parameter controls the number of inputs to embed in a single batch
 // The batches are processed in parallel
 // Returns the first error encountered if any
-// Default batch size is 256
+// Default batch size is 256.
 func (f *FlagEmbedding) Embed(input []string, batchSize int) ([]([]float32), error) {
 	if batchSize <= 0 {
 		batchSize = 256
@@ -220,7 +218,7 @@ func (f *FlagEmbedding) Embed(input []string, batchSize int) ([]([]float32), err
 	embeddings := make([]([]float32), len(input))
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
 	errorCh := make(chan error, len(input))
-	//var resultsMutex sync.Mutex
+	// var resultsMutex sync.Mutex
 
 	for i := 0; i < len(input); i += batchSize {
 		wg.Add(1)
@@ -236,9 +234,8 @@ func (f *FlagEmbedding) Embed(input []string, batchSize int) ([]([]float32), err
 			}
 			// resultsMutex.Lock()
 			// defer resultsMutex.Unlock()
-			//Removed the mutex as the slice positions being accessed are unique for each goroutine and there is no overlap
+			// Removed the mutex as the slice positions being accessed are unique for each goroutine and there is no overlap
 			copy(embeddings[i:end], batchOut)
-
 		}(i)
 	}
 	wg.Wait()
@@ -252,7 +249,7 @@ func (f *FlagEmbedding) Embed(input []string, batchSize int) ([]([]float32), err
 }
 
 // Function to embed a single input string prefixed with "query: "
-// Recommended for generating query embeddings for semantic search
+// Recommended for generating query embeddings for semantic search.
 func (f *FlagEmbedding) QueryEmbed(input string) ([]float32, error) {
 	query := "query: " + input
 	data, err := f.onnxEmbed([]string{query})
@@ -262,7 +259,7 @@ func (f *FlagEmbedding) QueryEmbed(input string) ([]float32, error) {
 	return data[0], nil
 }
 
-// Function to embed string prefixed with "passage: "
+// Function to embed string prefixed with "passage: ".
 func (f *FlagEmbedding) PassageEmbed(input []string, batchSize int) ([]([]float32), error) {
 	processedInput := make([]string, len(input))
 	for i, v := range input {
@@ -271,7 +268,7 @@ func (f *FlagEmbedding) PassageEmbed(input []string, batchSize int) ([]([]float3
 	return f.Embed(processedInput, batchSize)
 }
 
-// Function to list the supported FastEmbed models
+// Function to list the supported FastEmbed models.
 func ListSupportedModels() []ModelInfo {
 	return []ModelInfo{
 		{
@@ -378,7 +375,6 @@ func loadTokenizer(modelPath string, maxLength int) (*tokenizer.Tokenizer, error
 	specialTokens := make([]tokenizer.AddedToken, 0)
 
 	for _, v := range tokensMap {
-
 		switch t := v.(type) {
 		case map[string]interface{}:
 			{
@@ -399,14 +395,13 @@ func loadTokenizer(modelPath string, maxLength int) (*tokenizer.Tokenizer, error
 		default:
 			panic(fmt.Sprintf("unknown type for special_tokens_map.json%T", t))
 		}
-
 	}
 	tknzer.AddSpecialTokens(specialTokens)
 
 	return tknzer, nil
 }
 
-// Private function to get model information from the model name
+// Private function to get model information from the model name.
 func getModelInfo(model EmbeddingModel) (ModelInfo, error) {
 	for _, m := range ListSupportedModels() {
 		if m.Model == model {
@@ -417,7 +412,7 @@ func getModelInfo(model EmbeddingModel) (ModelInfo, error) {
 }
 
 // Private function to retrieve the model from the cache or download it
-// Returns the path to the model
+// Returns the path to the model.
 func retrieveModel(model EmbeddingModel, cacheDir string, showDownloadProgress bool) (string, error) {
 	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(cacheDir, string(model))); !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
 		return filepath.Join(cacheDir, string(model)), nil
@@ -425,7 +420,7 @@ func retrieveModel(model EmbeddingModel, cacheDir string, showDownloadProgress b
 	return downloadFromGcs(model, cacheDir, showDownloadProgress)
 }
 
-// Private function to download the model from Google Cloud Storage
+// Private function to download the model from Google Cloud Storage.
 func downloadFromGcs(model EmbeddingModel, cacheDir string, showDownloadProgress bool) (string, error) {
 	// The MLE5Large model URL doesn't follow the same naming convention as the other models
 	// So, we tranform "fast-multilingual-e5-large" -> "intfloat-multilingual-e5-large" in the download URL
@@ -466,7 +461,7 @@ func downloadFromGcs(model EmbeddingModel, cacheDir string, showDownloadProgress
 	return filepath.Join(cacheDir, string(model)), nil
 }
 
-// Private function to untar the downloaded model from a .tar.gz file
+// Private function to untar the downloaded model from a .tar.gz file.
 func untar(tarball io.Reader, target string) error {
 	archive, err := gzip.NewReader(tarball)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -527,7 +522,7 @@ func normalize(v []float32) []float32 {
 	return normalized
 }
 
-// Private function to return the normalized embeddings from a flattened array with the given dimensions
+// Private function to return the normalized embeddings from a flattened array with the given dimensions.
 func getEmbeddings(data []float32, dimensions []int64) []([]float32) {
 	x, y, z := dimensions[0], dimensions[1], dimensions[2]
 	embeddings := make([][]float32, x)
@@ -541,18 +536,18 @@ func getEmbeddings(data []float32, dimensions []int64) []([]float32) {
 }
 
 // Private function to convert multiple int32 slices to int64 slices as required by the onnxruntime API
-// With a linear time complexity
-func encodingToInt32(inputA, inputB, inputC []int) (outputA, outputB, outputC []int64) {
+// With a linear time complexity.
+func encodingToInt32(inputA, inputB, inputC []int) ([]int64, []int64, []int64) {
 	if len(inputA) != len(inputB) || len(inputB) != len(inputC) {
 		panic("input lengths do not match")
 	}
-	outputA = make([]int64, len(inputA))
-	outputB = make([]int64, len(inputB))
-	outputC = make([]int64, len(inputC))
+	outputA := make([]int64, len(inputA))
+	outputB := make([]int64, len(inputB))
+	outputC := make([]int64, len(inputC))
 	for i := range inputA {
 		outputA[i] = int64(inputA[i])
 		outputB[i] = int64(inputB[i])
 		outputC[i] = int64(inputC[i])
 	}
-	return
+	return outputA, outputB, outputC
 }
diff --git a/fastembed_test.go b/fastembed_test.go
index 9e59efb..da4576b 100644
--- a/fastembed_test.go
+++ b/fastembed_test.go
@@ -1,44 +1,45 @@
-package fastembed
+package fastembed_test
 
 import (
 	"math"
 	"testing"
+
+	fastembed "github.com/anush008/fastembed-go"
 )
 
-func TestCanonicalValues(T *testing.T) {
-	canonicalValues := map[EmbeddingModel]([]float32){
-		AllMiniLML6V2: []float32{0.02591, 0.00573, 0.01147, 0.03796, -0.02328},
-		BGESmallEN:    []float32{-0.02313, -0.02552, 0.017357, -0.06393, -0.00061},
-		BGEBaseEN:     []float32{0.01140, 0.03722, 0.02941, 0.01230, 0.03451},
-		BGEBaseENV15:  []float32{0.01129394, 0.05493144, 0.02615099, 0.00328772, 0.02996045},
-		BGESmallENV15: []float32{0.01522374, -0.02271799, 0.00860278, -0.07424029, 0.00386434},
-		BGESmallZH:    []float32{-0.01023294, 0.07634465, 0.0691722, -0.04458365, -0.03160762},
+func TestCanonicalValues(t *testing.T) {
+	canonicalValues := map[fastembed.EmbeddingModel]([]float32){
+		fastembed.AllMiniLML6V2: []float32{0.02591, 0.00573, 0.01147, 0.03796, -0.02328},
+		fastembed.BGESmallEN:    []float32{-0.02313, -0.02552, 0.017357, -0.06393, -0.00061},
+		fastembed.BGEBaseEN:     []float32{0.01140, 0.03722, 0.02941, 0.01230, 0.03451},
+		fastembed.BGEBaseENV15:  []float32{0.01129394, 0.05493144, 0.02615099, 0.00328772, 0.02996045},
+		fastembed.BGESmallENV15: []float32{0.01522374, -0.02271799, 0.00860278, -0.07424029, 0.00386434},
+		fastembed.BGESmallZH:    []float32{-0.01023294, 0.07634465, 0.0691722, -0.04458365, -0.03160762},
 	}
 
 	for model, expected := range canonicalValues {
-		fe, err := NewFlagEmbedding(&InitOptions{
+		fe, err := fastembed.NewFlagEmbedding(&fastembed.InitOptions{
 			Model: model,
 		})
 		defer fe.Destroy()
 		if err != nil {
-			T.Fatalf("Expected no error, got %v", err)
+			t.Fatalf("Expected no error, got %v", err)
 		}
 		input := []string{"hello world"}
 		result, err := fe.Embed(input, 1)
 		if err != nil {
-			T.Fatalf("Expected no error, got %v", err)
+			t.Fatalf("Expected no error, got %v", err)
 		}
 
 		if len(result) != len(input) {
-			T.Errorf("Expected result length %v, got %v", len(input), len(result))
+			t.Errorf("Expected result length %v, got %v", len(input), len(result))
 		}
 
 		epsilon := float64(1e-4)
 		for i, v := range expected {
-			if math.Abs(float64(result[0][i]-v)) > float64(epsilon) {
-				T.Errorf("Element %d mismatch for %s: expected %.6f, got %.6f", i, model, v, result[0][i])
+			if math.Abs(float64(result[0][i]-v)) > epsilon {
+				t.Errorf("Element %d mismatch for %s: expected %.6f, got %.6f", i, model, v, result[0][i])
 			}
 		}
 	}
-
 }