diff --git a/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/containers/BUILD b/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/containers/BUILD
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+# TODO: describe this package.
+
+# Copyright 2022 The MediaPipe Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+package(default_visibility = ["//mediapipe/tasks:internal"])
+
+licenses(["notice"])
+
+cc_library(
+    name = "category",
+    hdrs = ["category.h"],
+)
+
+cc_library(
+    name = "classification_result",
+    hdrs = ["classification_result.h"],
+)
diff --git a/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/containers/category.h b/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/containers/category.h
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+++ b/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/containers/category.h
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+/* Copyright 2023 The MediaPipe Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+==============================================================================*/
+
+#ifndef MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_COMPONENTS_CONTAINERS_CATEGORY_H_
+#define MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_COMPONENTS_CONTAINERS_CATEGORY_H_
+
+// Defines a single classification result.
+//
+// The label maps packed into the TFLite Model Metadata [1] are used to populate
+// the 'category_name' and 'display_name' fields.
+//
+// [1]: https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/convert/metadata
+struct Category {
+  // The index of the category in the classification model output.
+  int index;
+
+  // The score for this category, e.g. (but not necessarily) a probability in
+  // [0,1].
+  float score;
+
+  // The optional ID for the category, read from the label map packed in the
+  // TFLite Model Metadata if present. Not necessarily human-readable.
+  char* category_name;
+
+  // The optional human-readable name for the category, read from the label map
+  // packed in the TFLite Model Metadata if present.
+  char* display_name;
+};
+
+#endif  // MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_COMPONENTS_CONTAINERS_CATEGORY_H_
diff --git a/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/containers/classification_result.h b/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/containers/classification_result.h
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index 000000000..540ab4464
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+++ b/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/containers/classification_result.h
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+/* Copyright 2023 The MediaPipe Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+==============================================================================*/
+
+#ifndef MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_COMPONENTS_CONTAINERS_CLASSIFICATION_RESULT_H_
+#define MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_COMPONENTS_CONTAINERS_CLASSIFICATION_RESULT_H_
+
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+// Defines classification results for a given classifier head.
+struct Classifications {
+  // The array of predicted categories, usually sorted by descending scores,
+  // e.g. from high to low probability.
+  struct Category* categories;
+  // The number of elements in the categories array.
+  uint32_t categories_count;
+
+  // The index of the classifier head (i.e. output tensor) these categories
+  // refer to. This is useful for multi-head models.
+  int head_index;
+
+  // The optional name of the classifier head, as provided in the TFLite Model
+  // Metadata [1] if present. This is useful for multi-head models.
+  //
+  // [1]: https://www.tensorflow.org/lite/convert/metadata
+  char* head_name;
+};
+
+// Defines classification results of a model.
+struct ClassificationResult {
+  // The classification results for each head of the model.
+  struct Classifications* classifications;
+  // The number of classifications in the classifications array.
+  uint32_t classifications_count;
+
+  // The optional timestamp (in milliseconds) of the start of the chunk of data
+  // corresponding to these results.
+  //
+  // This is only used for classification on time series (e.g. audio
+  // classification). In these use cases, the amount of data to process might
+  // exceed the maximum size that the model can process: to solve this, the
+  // input data is split into multiple chunks starting at different timestamps.
+  int64_t timestamp_ms;
+  // Specifies whether the timestamp contains a valid value.
+  bool has_timestamp_ms;
+};
+
+#endif  // MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_COMPONENTS_CONTAINERS_CLASSIFICATION_RESULT_H_
diff --git a/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/processors/BUILD b/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/processors/BUILD
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index 000000000..24d3a181e
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+++ b/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/processors/BUILD
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+# Copyright 2023 The MediaPipe Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+package(default_visibility = ["//mediapipe/tasks:internal"])
+
+licenses(["notice"])
+
+cc_library(
+    name = "classifier_options",
+    hdrs = ["classifier_options.h"],
+)
diff --git a/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/processors/classifier_options.h b/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/processors/classifier_options.h
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index 000000000..4cce2ce69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mediapipe/tasks/c/components/processors/classifier_options.h
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+/* Copyright 2023 The MediaPipe Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+==============================================================================*/
+
+#ifndef MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_COMPONENTS_PROCESSORS_CLASSIFIER_OPTIONS_H_
+#define MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_COMPONENTS_PROCESSORS_CLASSIFIER_OPTIONS_H_
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+// Classifier options for MediaPipe C classification Tasks.
+struct ClassifierOptions {
+  // The locale to use for display names specified through the TFLite Model
+  // Metadata, if any. Defaults to English.
+  char* display_names_locale;
+
+  // The maximum number of top-scored classification results to return. If < 0,
+  // all available results will be returned. If 0, an invalid argument error is
+  // returned.
+  int max_results;
+
+  // Score threshold to override the one provided in the model metadata (if
+  // any). Results below this value are rejected.
+  float score_threshold;
+
+  // The allowlist of category names. If non-empty, detection results whose
+  // category name is not in this set will be filtered out. Duplicate or unknown
+  // category names are ignored. Mutually exclusive with category_denylist.
+  char** category_allowlist;
+  // The number of elements in the category allowlist.
+  uint32_t category_allowlist_count;
+
+  // The denylist of category names. If non-empty, detection results whose
+  // category name is in this set will be filtered out. Duplicate or unknown
+  // category names are ignored. Mutually exclusive with category_allowlist.
+  char** category_denylist = {};
+  // The number of elements in the category denylist.
+  uint32_t category_denylist_count;
+};
+
+#endif  // MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_COMPONENTS_PROCESSORS_CLASSIFIER_OPTIONS_H_
diff --git a/mediapipe/tasks/c/core/BUILD b/mediapipe/tasks/c/core/BUILD
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index 000000000..60d10857f
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+++ b/mediapipe/tasks/c/core/BUILD
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+# Copyright 2023 The MediaPipe Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+package(default_visibility = ["//mediapipe/tasks:internal"])
+
+licenses(["notice"])
+
+cc_library(
+    name = "base_options",
+    hdrs = ["base_options.h"],
+)
diff --git a/mediapipe/tasks/c/core/base_options.h b/mediapipe/tasks/c/core/base_options.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f5f6b0318
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mediapipe/tasks/c/core/base_options.h
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+/* Copyright 2023 The MediaPipe Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+==============================================================================*/
+
+#ifndef MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_CORE_BASE_OPTIONS_H_
+#define MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_CORE_BASE_OPTIONS_H_
+
+// Base options for MediaPipe C Tasks.
+struct BaseOptions {
+  // The model asset file contents as a string.
+  char* model_asset_buffer;
+
+  // The path to the model asset to open and mmap in memory.
+  char* model_asset_path;
+};
+
+#endif  // MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_CORE_BASE_OPTIONS_H_
diff --git a/mediapipe/tasks/c/text/text_classifier/BUILD b/mediapipe/tasks/c/text/text_classifier/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0402689c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mediapipe/tasks/c/text/text_classifier/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+# Copyright 2023 The MediaPipe Authors.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+package(default_visibility = ["//mediapipe/tasks:internal"])
+
+licenses(["notice"])
+
+cc_library(
+    name = "text_classifier",
+    hdrs = ["text_classifier.h"],
+    visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
+    deps = [
+        "//mediapipe/tasks/c/components/containers:classification_result",
+        "//mediapipe/tasks/c/components/processors:classifier_options",
+        "//mediapipe/tasks/c/core:base_options",
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/mediapipe/tasks/c/text/text_classifier/text_classifier.h b/mediapipe/tasks/c/text/text_classifier/text_classifier.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f0d4e071e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mediapipe/tasks/c/text/text_classifier/text_classifier.h
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/* Copyright 2023 The MediaPipe Authors.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.
+==============================================================================*/
+
+#ifndef MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_TEXT_TEXT_CLASSIFIER_TEXT_CLASSIFIER_H_
+#define MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_TEXT_TEXT_CLASSIFIER_TEXT_CLASSIFIER_H_
+
+#include "mediapipe/tasks/c/components/containers/classification_result.h"
+#include "mediapipe/tasks/c/components/processors/classifier_options.h"
+#include "mediapipe/tasks/c/core/base_options.h"
+
+typedef ClassificationResult TextClassifierResult;
+
+// The options for configuring a MediaPipe text classifier task.
+struct TextClassifierOptions {
+  // Base options for configuring MediaPipe Tasks, such as specifying the model
+  // file with metadata, accelerator options, op resolver, etc.
+  struct BaseOptions base_options;
+
+  // Options for configuring the classifier behavior, such as score threshold,
+  // number of results, etc.
+  struct ClassifierOptions classifier_options;
+};
+
+// Creates a TextClassifier from the provided `options`.
+void* text_classsifier_create(struct TextClassifierOptions options);
+
+// Performs classification on the input `text`.
+TextClassifierResult text_classifier_classify(void* classifier,
+                                              char* utf8_text);
+
+// Shuts down the TextClassifier when all the work is done. Frees all memory.
+void text_classsifier_close(void* classifier);
+
+#endif  // MEDIAPIPE_TASKS_C_TEXT_TEXT_CLASSIFIER_TEXT_CLASSIFIER_H_