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Extracts text from many file formats — PDF, Word, HTML, and more — for search indexing, via pluggable per-format backend modules rather than one monolithic parser. Each supported format is handled by delegating to an appropriate existing extraction library or system tool under the hood, with `fulltext` providing the unified API and format-detection layer on top. Aimed specifically at indexing pipelines that need one consistent text-extraction call across mixed document types.