diff --git a/src/roiextractors/__init__.py b/src/roiextractors/__init__.py
index eadef868..46c64c68 100644
--- a/src/roiextractors/__init__.py
+++ b/src/roiextractors/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+"""Python-based module for extracting from, converting between, and handling recorded and optical imaging data from several file formats."""
 # Keeping __version__ accessible only to maintain backcompatability.
 # Modern appraoch (Python >= 3.8) is to use importlib
 try:
diff --git a/src/roiextractors/extractors/__init__.py b/src/roiextractors/extractors/__init__.py
index e69de29b..25e0445d 100644
--- a/src/roiextractors/extractors/__init__.py
+++ b/src/roiextractors/extractors/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+"""All specialized ImagingExtractors and SegmentationExtractors are defined here."""