diff --git a/asciidoctorj-api/build.gradle b/asciidoctorj-api/build.gradle
index b79424808..a887ecd2f 100644
--- a/asciidoctorj-api/build.gradle
+++ b/asciidoctorj-api/build.gradle
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ jar {
   manifest {
     symbolicName = 'org.asciidoctor'
     instruction 'Export-Package',
-      "org.asciidoctor.ast;version=\"${version}\""
+      "org.asciidoctor.ast;version=\"${version}\"",
+      "org.asciidoctor.converter;version=\"${version}\""
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-core/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/Converter.java b/asciidoctorj-api/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/Converter.java
similarity index 100%
rename from asciidoctorj-core/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/Converter.java
rename to asciidoctorj-api/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/Converter.java
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-core/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/ConverterFor.java b/asciidoctorj-api/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/ConverterFor.java
similarity index 100%
rename from asciidoctorj-core/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/ConverterFor.java
rename to asciidoctorj-api/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/ConverterFor.java
diff --git a/asciidoctorj-core/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/OutputFormatWriter.java b/asciidoctorj-api/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/OutputFormatWriter.java
similarity index 96%
rename from asciidoctorj-core/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/OutputFormatWriter.java
rename to asciidoctorj-api/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/OutputFormatWriter.java
index 684213731..68b6a6865 100644
--- a/asciidoctorj-core/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/OutputFormatWriter.java
+++ b/asciidoctorj-api/src/main/java/org/asciidoctor/converter/OutputFormatWriter.java
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 package org.asciidoctor.converter;
 
-import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;