diff --git a/packages/cli/src/api/extractors/babel.ts b/packages/cli/src/api/extractors/babel.ts
index 4fb1ac09a..b4d68efef 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/api/extractors/babel.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/api/extractors/babel.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
-import { DEFAULT_EXTENSIONS, transformAsync } from "@babel/core"
+import { DEFAULT_EXTENSIONS, transformAsync, ParserOptions } from "@babel/core"
 
-import type { ExtractPluginOpts } from "@lingui/babel-plugin-extract-messages"
+import type {
+  ExtractPluginOpts,
+  Origin,
+} from "@lingui/babel-plugin-extract-messages"
 import linguiExtractMessages from "@lingui/babel-plugin-extract-messages"
 
 import type { ExtractorType } from "@lingui/conf"
 import { ParserPlugin } from "@babel/parser"
-import { SourceMapConsumer } from "source-map"
+
 import { LinguiMacroOpts } from "@lingui/macro/node"
+import { ExtractedMessage, ExtractorCtx } from "@lingui/conf"
 
 const babelRe = new RegExp(
   "\\.(" +
@@ -21,6 +25,131 @@ const inlineSourceMapsRE = new RegExp(
   /\/[\/\*][#@]\s+sourceMappingURL=data:application\/json;(?:charset:utf-8;)?base64,/i
 )
 
+/**
+ * Create a source mapper which could read original positions
+ * from either inline sourcemaps or from external passed as `sourceMaps` argument.
+ *
+ * Warning! You have to call destroy method after you finish working with a mapper.
+ *
+ * @param code source code
+ * @param sourceMaps Raw Sourcemaps object to mapping from. Check the https://github.com/mozilla/source-map#new-sourcemapconsumerrawsourcemap
+ */
+async function createSourceMapper(code: string, sourceMaps?: any) {
+  let sourceMapsConsumer: import("source-map").SourceMapConsumer
+
+  if (sourceMaps) {
+    const { SourceMapConsumer } = await import("source-map")
+    sourceMapsConsumer = await new SourceMapConsumer(sourceMaps)
+  } else if (code.search(inlineSourceMapsRE) != -1) {
+    const { SourceMapConsumer } = await import("source-map")
+    const { fromSource } = await import("convert-source-map")
+    sourceMapsConsumer = await new SourceMapConsumer(
+      fromSource(code).toObject()
+    )
+  }
+
+  return {
+    destroy: () => {
+      if (sourceMapsConsumer) {
+        sourceMapsConsumer.destroy()
+      }
+    },
+
+    originalPositionFor: (origin: Origin): Origin => {
+      if (!sourceMapsConsumer) {
+        return origin
+      }
+
+      const [_, line, column] = origin
+
+      const mappedPosition = sourceMapsConsumer.originalPositionFor({
+        line,
+        column,
+      })
+
+      return [mappedPosition.source, mappedPosition.line, mappedPosition.column]
+    },
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * @public
+ *
+ * Low level function used in default Lingui extractor.
+ * This function setup source maps and lingui plugins needed for
+ * extraction process but leaving `parserOptions` up to userland implementation.
+ *
+ *
+ * @example
+ * ```ts
+ * const extractor: ExtractorType = {
+ *   ...
+ *   async extract(filename, code, onMessageExtracted, ctx) {
+ *     return extractFromFileWithBabel(filename, code, onMessageExtracted, ctx, {
+ *       // https://babeljs.io/docs/babel-parser#plugins
+ *       plugins: [
+ *         "decorators-legacy",
+ *         "typescript",
+ *         "jsx",
+ *       ],
+ *     })
+ *   },
+ * }
+ * ```
+ */
+export async function extractFromFileWithBabel(
+  filename: string,
+  code: string,
+  onMessageExtracted: (msg: ExtractedMessage) => void,
+  ctx: ExtractorCtx,
+  parserOpts: ParserOptions
+) {
+  const mapper = await createSourceMapper(code, ctx?.sourceMaps)
+
+  await transformAsync(code, {
+    // don't generate code
+    code: false,
+
+    babelrc: false,
+    configFile: false,
+
+    filename: filename,
+
+    inputSourceMap: ctx?.sourceMaps,
+    parserOpts,
+
+    plugins: [
+      [
+        "macros",
+        {
+          // macro plugin uses package `resolve` to find a path of macro file
+          // this will not follow jest pathMapping and will resolve path from ./build
+          // instead of ./src which makes testing & developing hard.
+          // here we override resolve and provide correct path for testing
+          resolvePath: (source: string) => require.resolve(source),
+          lingui: {
+            extract: true,
+            linguiConfig: ctx.linguiConfig,
+          } satisfies LinguiMacroOpts,
+        },
+      ],
+      [
+        linguiExtractMessages,
+        {
+          onMessageExtracted: (msg) => {
+            return onMessageExtracted({
+              ...msg,
+              origin: mapper.originalPositionFor(msg.origin),
+            })
+          },
+        } satisfies ExtractPluginOpts,
+      ],
+    ],
+  })
+
+  mapper.destroy()
+}
+
 const extractor: ExtractorType = {
   match(filename) {
     return babelRe.test(filename)
@@ -53,78 +182,9 @@ const extractor: ExtractorType = {
       parserPlugins.push("jsx")
     }
 
-    let sourceMapsConsumer: SourceMapConsumer
-
-    if (ctx?.sourceMaps) {
-      sourceMapsConsumer = await new SourceMapConsumer(ctx?.sourceMaps)
-    } else if (code.search(inlineSourceMapsRE) != -1) {
-      const { fromSource } = await import("convert-source-map")
-      sourceMapsConsumer = await new SourceMapConsumer(
-        fromSource(code).toObject()
-      )
-    }
-
-    await transformAsync(code, {
-      // don't generate code
-      code: false,
-
-      babelrc: false,
-      configFile: false,
-
-      filename: filename,
-
-      inputSourceMap: ctx?.sourceMaps,
-      parserOpts: {
-        plugins: parserPlugins,
-      },
-
-      plugins: [
-        [
-          "macros",
-          {
-            // macro plugin uses package `resolve` to find a path of macro file
-            // this will not follow jest pathMapping and will resolve path from ./build
-            // instead of ./src which makes testing & developing hard.
-            // here we override resolve and provide correct path for testing
-            resolvePath: (source: string) => require.resolve(source),
-            lingui: {
-              extract: true,
-              linguiConfig: ctx.linguiConfig,
-            } satisfies LinguiMacroOpts,
-          },
-        ],
-        [
-          linguiExtractMessages,
-          {
-            onMessageExtracted: (msg) => {
-              if (!sourceMapsConsumer) {
-                return onMessageExtracted(msg)
-              }
-
-              const [_, line, column] = msg.origin
-
-              const mappedPosition = sourceMapsConsumer.originalPositionFor({
-                line,
-                column,
-              })
-
-              return onMessageExtracted({
-                ...msg,
-                origin: [
-                  mappedPosition.source,
-                  mappedPosition.line,
-                  mappedPosition.column,
-                ],
-              })
-            },
-          } satisfies ExtractPluginOpts,
-        ],
-      ],
+    return extractFromFileWithBabel(filename, code, onMessageExtracted, ctx, {
+      plugins: parserPlugins,
     })
-
-    if (sourceMapsConsumer) {
-      sourceMapsConsumer.destroy()
-    }
   },
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/api/index.ts b/packages/cli/src/api/index.ts
index ff8d8235d..3a7a77ee7 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/api/index.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/api/index.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ export { getCatalogForFile, getCatalogs } from "./catalog/getCatalogs"
 
 export { createCompiledCatalog } from "./compile"
 
-export { default as extractor } from "./extractors/babel"
+export {
+  default as extractor,
+  extractFromFileWithBabel,
+} from "./extractors/babel"
 export { getCatalogDependentFiles } from "./catalog/getCatalogDependentFiles"
 export * from "./types"