Textract is a text extraction library and command-line tool that extracts text from over 30 file formats including PDF, DOC, DOCX, images, audio, email, and structured data formats. The architecture centers around a parser registry that routes files to format-specific parsers based on extension, with a unified Source abstraction handling file paths, bytes, and streams as input. Key entry points are the Python API (textract.process()) and CLI interface (textract.bin.textract). The system relies on external tools like Poppler, Tesseract, and LibreOffice for certain formats while using pure Python parsers for others. The codebase demonstrates strong engineering practices with a clean plugin architecture, comprehensive test suite, and modern tooling (uv, ruff, pytest).