diff --git a/backend/app/services/archive_extractor.py b/backend/app/services/archive_extractor.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..45babef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/app/services/archive_extractor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+"""Best-effort archive member extraction (filesystem-import aid).
+
+zip/cbz via stdlib zipfile; rar via rarfile (needs an unrar/bsdtar
+binary); 7z via py7zr (pure-Python). NEVER raises: on any failure the
+context yields an empty list, and the caller still preserves the archive
+file itself as a PostAttachment, so nothing is lost.
+"""
+
+import logging
+import zipfile
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from pathlib import Path
+from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+ARCHIVE_EXTS = {".zip", ".cbz", ".rar", ".7z"}
+
+
+def is_archive(path: Path) -> bool:
+    return Path(path).suffix.lower() in ARCHIVE_EXTS
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def extract_archive(path: Path):
+    """Context manager yielding a list of (member_name, extracted_path)
+    for every regular-file member. Temp dir is removed on exit. Members
+    are only ever under the temp dir (libs' safe extractall + rglob from
+    base). Fail-soft: any error → yields []."""
+    tmp = TemporaryDirectory(prefix="fc_arch_")
+    base = Path(tmp.name)
+    members: list[tuple[str, Path]] = []
+    try:
+        try:
+            ext = Path(path).suffix.lower()
+            if ext in (".zip", ".cbz"):
+                with zipfile.ZipFile(path) as zf:
+                    zf.extractall(base)
+            elif ext == ".rar":
+                import rarfile
+
+                with rarfile.RarFile(path) as rf:
+                    rf.extractall(base)
+            elif ext == ".7z":
+                import py7zr
+
+                with py7zr.SevenZipFile(path, "r") as zf:
+                    zf.extractall(base)
+            for p in sorted(base.rglob("*")):
+                if p.is_file():
+                    members.append((str(p.relative_to(base)), p))
+        except Exception as exc:
+            log.warning("archive extract failed for %s: %s", path, exc)
+            members = []
+        yield members
+    finally:
+        tmp.cleanup()
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 72edeb3..a6e009b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -29,3 +29,7 @@ structlog>=25.5,<26.0
 
 # HTML sanitization for scraped post descriptions (FC-2d provenance)
 nh3>=0.2,<0.3
+
+# Archive extraction (FC-2d-iii filesystem-import aid)
+rarfile>=4.2,<5
+py7zr>=1,<2
diff --git a/tests/test_archive_extractor.py b/tests/test_archive_extractor.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24e3a95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_archive_extractor.py
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import zipfile
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+from backend.app.services.archive_extractor import extract_archive, is_archive
+
+
+def test_is_archive():
+    assert is_archive(Path("a.zip"))
+    assert is_archive(Path("a.CBZ"))
+    assert is_archive(Path("a.rar"))
+    assert is_archive(Path("a.7z"))
+    assert not is_archive(Path("a.jpg"))
+
+
+def _zip(path, entries):
+    with zipfile.ZipFile(path, "w") as zf:
+        for name, data in entries.items():
+            zf.writestr(name, data)
+
+
+def test_zip_members_enumerated(tmp_path):
+    z = tmp_path / "set.zip"
+    _zip(z, {"a.jpg": b"img", "sub/b.png": b"img2", "notes.txt": b"hi"})
+    with extract_archive(z) as members:
+        names = sorted(n for n, _ in members)
+        assert names == ["a.jpg", "notes.txt", "sub/b.png"]
+        for _, p in members:
+            assert p.is_file()
+    for _, p in members:
+        assert not p.exists()  # temp cleaned on exit
+
+
+def test_cbz_alias(tmp_path):
+    z = tmp_path / "set.cbz"
+    _zip(z, {"p1.jpg": b"i"})
+    with extract_archive(z) as members:
+        assert [n for n, _ in members] == ["p1.jpg"]
+
+
+def test_corrupt_archive_yields_nothing(tmp_path):
+    bad = tmp_path / "broken.zip"
+    bad.write_bytes(b"not a zip at all")
+    with extract_archive(bad) as members:
+        assert members == []
+
+
+def test_7z_roundtrip(tmp_path):
+    py7zr = pytest.importorskip("py7zr")
+    a = tmp_path / "s.7z"
+    (tmp_path / "x.jpg").write_bytes(b"img")
+    with py7zr.SevenZipFile(a, "w") as zf:
+        zf.write(tmp_path / "x.jpg", "x.jpg")
+    with extract_archive(a) as members:
+        assert [n for n, _ in members] == ["x.jpg"]
+
+
+def test_rar_corrupt_is_failsoft(tmp_path):
+    pytest.importorskip("rarfile")
+    bad = tmp_path / "b.rar"
+    bad.write_bytes(b"Rar! not really")
+    with extract_archive(bad) as members:
+        assert members == []  # invalid / no unrar → fail-soft, nothing lost