diff --git a/.changeset/olive-buses-serve.md b/.changeset/olive-buses-serve.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d4e1798360
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/olive-buses-serve.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-search-backend-module-techdocs': patch
+---
+
+Exports the default document collator for use in document transformation during search indexing.
diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/report.api.md b/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/report.api.md
index d0acf61f6f..fd5bc3db2e 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/report.api.md
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/report.api.md
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ import { TechDocsDocument } from '@backstage/plugin-techdocs-node';
 const _default: BackendFeature;
 export default _default;
 
+// @public (undocumented)
+export const defaultTechDocsCollatorDocumentTransformer: TechDocsCollatorDocumentTransformer;
+
 // @public (undocumented)
 export const defaultTechDocsCollatorEntityTransformer: TechDocsCollatorEntityTransformer;
 
diff --git a/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/index.ts b/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/index.ts
index 695ce8f0e8..b517cd6d13 100644
--- a/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/index.ts
+++ b/plugins/search-backend-module-techdocs/src/collators/index.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
  */
 
 export { defaultTechDocsCollatorEntityTransformer } from './defaultTechDocsCollatorEntityTransformer';
-
+export { defaultTechDocsCollatorDocumentTransformer } from './defaultTechDocsCollatorDocumentTransformer';
 export type { TechDocsCollatorEntityTransformer } from './TechDocsCollatorEntityTransformer';
 
 export type {