diff --git a/code/libraries/blocking-thread-pool/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/util/ProcessingIterator.java b/code/libraries/blocking-thread-pool/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/util/ProcessingIterator.java
index 52c93bb4..523381fa 100644
--- a/code/libraries/blocking-thread-pool/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/util/ProcessingIterator.java
+++ b/code/libraries/blocking-thread-pool/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/util/ProcessingIterator.java
@@ -26,16 +26,20 @@ public class ProcessingIterator<T> implements Iterator<T> {
 
     private final int parallelism;
 
-    public ProcessingIterator(int queueSize, int parallelism, ProcessingJob<T> task) {
+    ProcessingIterator(ExecutorService executorService, int queueSize, int parallelism, ProcessingJob<T> task) {
         this.parallelism = parallelism;
 
         queue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<>(queueSize);
-        executorService = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(parallelism);
+        this.executorService = executorService;
         sem = new Semaphore(parallelism);
 
         executorService.submit(() -> executeJob(task));
     }
 
+    public static Factory factory(int queueSize, int parallelism) {
+        return new Factory(queueSize, parallelism);
+    }
+
     private void executeJob(ProcessingJob<T> job) {
         try {
             job.run(this::executeTask);
@@ -83,10 +87,6 @@ public class ProcessingIterator<T> implements Iterator<T> {
             }
         } while (expectMore());
 
-        if (!executorService.isShutdown()) {
-            executorService.shutdown();
-        }
-
         return false;
     }
 
@@ -128,14 +128,39 @@ public class ProcessingIterator<T> implements Iterator<T> {
      * performed in parallel
      */
     public interface ProcessingJob<T2> {
+
         void run(Consumer<Task<T2>> output) throws Exception;
     }
-
     /**
      * A single task that produces a result to be iterable via the Iterator interface
      * (along with other tasks' outputs)
      */
     public interface Task<T> {
+
         T get() throws Exception;
     }
+
+    public static class Factory {
+        private final int queueSize;
+        private final int parallelism;
+        private final ExecutorService executorService;
+
+        Factory(int queueSize, int parallelism) {
+            this.queueSize = queueSize;
+            this.parallelism = parallelism;
+            this.executorService = Executors.newFixedThreadPool(parallelism);
+        }
+
+        public <T> ProcessingIterator<T> create(ProcessingJob<T> task) {
+            return new ProcessingIterator<>(executorService, queueSize, parallelism, task);
+        }
+
+        public void stop() {
+            if (!executorService.isShutdown()) {
+                executorService.shutdown();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
 }
+
diff --git a/code/processes/converting-process/src/test/java/nu/marginalia/util/ProcessingIteratorTest.java b/code/libraries/blocking-thread-pool/src/test/java/nu/marginalia/util/ProcessingIteratorTest.java
similarity index 89%
rename from code/processes/converting-process/src/test/java/nu/marginalia/util/ProcessingIteratorTest.java
rename to code/libraries/blocking-thread-pool/src/test/java/nu/marginalia/util/ProcessingIteratorTest.java
index d20b7ddf..dd0f8d14 100644
--- a/code/processes/converting-process/src/test/java/nu/marginalia/util/ProcessingIteratorTest.java
+++ b/code/libraries/blocking-thread-pool/src/test/java/nu/marginalia/util/ProcessingIteratorTest.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package nu.marginalia.util;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ class ProcessingIteratorTest {
     @Test
     public void test() {
         Set<Integer> output = new HashSet<>();
-        var iter = new ProcessingIterator<Integer>(2, 2, q -> {
+        Iterator<Integer> iter = ProcessingIterator.factory(2, 2).create(q -> {
             for (int i = 0; i < 10_000; i++) {
                 int j = i;
                 q.accept(() -> task(j));
diff --git a/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java b/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java
index a25384a3..630f97f7 100644
--- a/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java
+++ b/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/processor/DomainProcessor.java
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ public class DomainProcessor {
         private final Set<String> processedUrls = new HashSet<>();
         private final DomainLinks externalDomainLinks;
         private final LshDocumentDeduplicator deduplicator = new LshDocumentDeduplicator();
+        private static ProcessingIterator.Factory iteratorFactory = ProcessingIterator.factory(24, 16);
 
         SideloadProcessing(SerializableCrawlDataStream dataStream, int sizeHint) throws IOException {
             this.dataStream = dataStream;
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ public class DomainProcessor {
 
         @Override
         public Iterator<ProcessedDocument> getDocumentsStream() {
-            return new ProcessingIterator<>(24, 16, (taskConsumer) -> {
+            return iteratorFactory.create((taskConsumer) -> {
                 while (dataStream.hasNext())
                 {
                     if (!(dataStream.next() instanceof CrawledDocument doc))
diff --git a/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/sideload/encyclopedia/EncyclopediaMarginaliaNuSideloader.java b/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/sideload/encyclopedia/EncyclopediaMarginaliaNuSideloader.java
index f0686b4c..3220703a 100644
--- a/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/sideload/encyclopedia/EncyclopediaMarginaliaNuSideloader.java
+++ b/code/processes/converting-process/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/converting/sideload/encyclopedia/EncyclopediaMarginaliaNuSideloader.java
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ public class EncyclopediaMarginaliaNuSideloader implements SideloadSource, AutoC
     @SneakyThrows
     @Override
     public Iterator<ProcessedDocument> getDocumentsStream() {
-        return new ProcessingIterator<>(24, 16, (taskConsumer) -> {
+        // This leaks a thread pool, but it doesn't matter since this is a one-off process
+        return ProcessingIterator.factory(24, 16).create((taskConsumer) -> {
             DomainLinks domainLinks = getDomainLinks();
 
             var stmt = connection.prepareStatement("""