diff --git a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hslf/extractor/PowerPointExtractor.java b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hslf/extractor/PowerPointExtractor.java
index 8db7382e9..5b1c3d5a5 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hslf/extractor/PowerPointExtractor.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hslf/extractor/PowerPointExtractor.java
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ public class PowerPointExtractor
   }
 
   /**
-   * Creates a PowerPointExtractor
-   * @param fileName
+   * Creates a PowerPointExtractor, from a file
+   * @param fileName The name of the file to extract from
    */
   public PowerPointExtractor(String fileName) throws IOException {
 	_hslfshow = new HSLFSlideShow(fileName);
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ public class PowerPointExtractor
   }
 
   /**
-   * Creates a PowerPointExtractor
-   * @param iStream
+   * Creates a PowerPointExtractor, from an Input Stream
+   * @param iStream The input stream containing the PowerPoint document
    */
   public PowerPointExtractor(InputStream iStream) throws IOException {
 	_hslfshow = new HSLFSlideShow(iStream);
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ public class PowerPointExtractor
   }
 
   /**
-   * Creates a PowerPointExtractor
-   * @param fs
+   * Creates a PowerPointExtractor, from an open POIFSFileSystem
+   * @param fs the POIFSFileSystem containing the PowerPoint document
    */
   public PowerPointExtractor(POIFSFileSystem fs) throws IOException {
 	_hslfshow = new HSLFSlideShow(fs);
@@ -98,6 +98,17 @@ public class PowerPointExtractor
 	_notes = _show.getNotes();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Creates a PowerPointExtractor, from a HSLFSlideShow
+   * @param ss the HSLFSlideShow to extract text from
+   */
+  public PowerPointExtractor(HSLFSlideShow ss) throws IOException {
+	_hslfshow = ss;
+	_show = new SlideShow(_hslfshow);
+	_slides = _show.getSlides();
+	_notes = _show.getNotes();
+  }
+
 
   /**
    * Shuts down the underlying streams
diff --git a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/extractor/WordExtractor.java b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/extractor/WordExtractor.java
index 5be1b8f8a..d34fa78c2 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/extractor/WordExtractor.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hwpf/extractor/WordExtractor.java
@@ -36,8 +36,16 @@ public class WordExtractor {
 	 * @param fs POIFSFileSystem containing the word file
 	 */
 	public WordExtractor(POIFSFileSystem fs) throws IOException {
+		this(new HWPFDocument(fs));
 		this.fs = fs;
-		doc = new HWPFDocument(fs);
+	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * Create a new Word Extractor
+	 * @param doc The HWPFDocument to extract from
+	 */
+	public WordExtractor(HWPFDocument doc) throws IOException {
+		this.doc = doc;
 	}
 	
 	/**