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@@ -20,3 +20,41 @@ extract_iter
 extractOne
 ----------
 .. autofunction:: rapidfuzz.process.extractOne
+
+Finding the matching substring
+------------------------------
+
+:func:`rapidfuzz.process.extract` returns the choice, score, and index (or mapping key), but not
+alignment positions. When using :func:`rapidfuzz.fuzz.partial_ratio` as the
+scorer, call :func:`rapidfuzz.fuzz.partial_ratio_alignment` on each returned
+choice to obtain the matching ranges. This computes alignments only for the
+selected results, and works with the default C++ implementation:
+
+    >>> from rapidfuzz import fuzz, process
+    >>> query = "needle"
+    >>> choices = {
+    ...     "first": "a needle in a haystack",
+    ...     "second": "another needle",
+    ...     "third": "unrelated",
+    ... }
+    >>> matches = process.extract(
+    ...     query, choices, scorer=fuzz.partial_ratio,
+    ...     processor=None, score_cutoff=90, limit=2,
+    ... )
+    >>> for choice, score, key in matches:
+    ...     alignment = fuzz.partial_ratio_alignment(query, choice, processor=None)
+    ...     if alignment is not None:
+    ...         print(key, choice[alignment.dest_start:alignment.dest_end])
+    first needle
+    second needle
+
+The ``src_start`` and ``src_end`` positions refer to the query; ``dest_start``
+and ``dest_end`` refer to the choice. This recipe uses ``partial_ratio`` in
+both steps: its alignment does not describe the scores of arbitrary scorers
+such as the default :func:`rapidfuzz.fuzz.WRatio`.
+
+The example disables preprocessing so that the positions can be used to slice
+the original strings. If preprocessing changes a string's length or content,
+the alignment positions refer to that processed string. Preprocess the query
+and choices explicitly before both steps when you need to slice the processed
+text; those positions cannot in general be applied to the originals.