diff --git a/src/extractor/content_stream.rs b/src/extractor/content_stream.rs
index 42a9515..7fa524c 100644
--- a/src/extractor/content_stream.rs
+++ b/src/extractor/content_stream.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use crate::text_utils::{
     decode_text_string, effective_font_size, expand_ligatures, is_bold_font, is_italic_font,
 };
 use crate::tounicode::FontCMaps;
-use crate::types::{ItemType, PdfLine, PdfRect, TextItem};
+use crate::types::{ItemType, PageExtraction, PdfLine, PdfRect, TextItem};
 use crate::PdfError;
 use log::trace;
 use lopdf::{Document, Encoding, Object, ObjectId};
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ pub(crate) fn extract_page_text_items(
     page_id: ObjectId,
     page_num: u32,
     font_cmaps: &FontCMaps,
-) -> Result<(Vec<TextItem>, Vec<PdfRect>, Vec<PdfLine>), PdfError> {
+) -> Result<PageExtraction, PdfError> {
     use lopdf::content::Content;
 
     let mut items = Vec::new();
diff --git a/src/extractor/mod.rs b/src/extractor/mod.rs
index d688acf..e0ea518 100644
--- a/src/extractor/mod.rs
+++ b/src/extractor/mod.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ mod xobjects;
 
 use crate::text_utils::is_rtl_text;
 use crate::tounicode::FontCMaps;
-use crate::types::{PdfLine, PdfRect, TextItem};
+use crate::types::{PageExtraction, TextItem};
 use crate::PdfError;
 use log::debug;
 use lopdf::{Document, Object, ObjectId};
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ pub fn extract_text_with_positions_pages<P: AsRef<Path>>(
 pub(crate) fn extract_text_with_positions_and_rects<P: AsRef<Path>>(
     path: P,
     page_filter: Option<&HashSet<u32>>,
-) -> Result<(Vec<TextItem>, Vec<PdfRect>, Vec<PdfLine>), PdfError> {
+) -> Result<PageExtraction, PdfError> {
     crate::validate_pdf_file(&path)?;
     let doc = match Document::load(&path) {
         Ok(d) => d,
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ pub fn extract_text_with_positions_mem_pages(
 pub(crate) fn extract_text_with_positions_mem_and_rects(
     buffer: &[u8],
     page_filter: Option<&HashSet<u32>>,
-) -> Result<(Vec<TextItem>, Vec<PdfRect>, Vec<PdfLine>), PdfError> {
+) -> Result<PageExtraction, PdfError> {
     crate::validate_pdf_bytes(buffer)?;
     let doc = match Document::load_mem(buffer) {
         Ok(d) => d,
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ pub(crate) fn extract_positioned_text_from_doc(
     doc: &Document,
     font_cmaps: &FontCMaps,
     page_filter: Option<&HashSet<u32>>,
-) -> Result<(Vec<TextItem>, Vec<PdfRect>, Vec<PdfLine>), PdfError> {
+) -> Result<PageExtraction, PdfError> {
     let pages = doc.get_pages();
     let mut all_items = Vec::new();
     let mut all_rects = Vec::new();
diff --git a/src/types.rs b/src/types.rs
index 4e0106e..7798f7b 100644
--- a/src/types.rs
+++ b/src/types.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ use std::collections::HashMap;
 
 use crate::text_utils::should_join_items;
 
+/// Result tuple returned by page-level text extraction: text items, rectangles, and line segments.
+pub(crate) type PageExtraction = (Vec<TextItem>, Vec<PdfRect>, Vec<PdfLine>);
+
 // ── Font types (crate-internal) ──────────────────────────────────────
 
 /// Font encoding map: maps byte codes to Unicode characters