diff --git a/bindings/python/scripts/sentencepiece_extractor.py b/bindings/python/scripts/sentencepiece_extractor.py
index a7bce9b49..89a691ccc 100644
--- a/bindings/python/scripts/sentencepiece_extractor.py
+++ b/bindings/python/scripts/sentencepiece_extractor.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 from os.path import exists
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 from typing import Dict, List, Tuple
+from itertools import chain
+from multiprocessing import Pool, cpu_count
 
 from requests import get
 from sentencepiece import SentencePieceProcessor
@@ -25,23 +27,39 @@ def __init__(self, model: str):
         self.sp = SentencePieceProcessor()
         self.sp.Load(model)
 
-    def extract(self) -> Tuple[Dict[str, int], List[Tuple]]:
+    def extract(self, num_thread = 0) -> Tuple[Dict[str, int], List[Tuple]]:
         sp = self.sp
         vocab = {sp.id_to_piece(index): index for index in trange(sp.GetPieceSize())}
 
-        # Merges
-        merges = []
-        for piece_l in tqdm(vocab.keys(), total=sp.GetPieceSize()):
-            for piece_r in vocab.keys():
-                merge = f"{piece_l}{piece_r}"
-                piece_id = vocab.get(merge, None)
-                if piece_id:
-                    merges += [(piece_l, piece_r, piece_id)]
+        if num_thread <= 0:
+            num_thread = cpu_count()
+
+        #Merges
+        results = []
+        with Pool(num_thread) as pool:
+            results = pool.starmap(self.extract_merges, [(key, vocab,) for key in vocab.keys()])
+
+        # Flatten and filter empty lists
+        merges = list(chain.from_iterable(filter(None, results)))
+        
         merges = sorted(merges, key=lambda val: val[2])
         merges = [(val[0], val[1]) for val in merges]
 
         return vocab, merges
 
+    """
+    Multiprocessing method for merges.
+    """
+    @staticmethod
+    def extract_merges(piece_l, vocab):
+        merges = []
+        for piece_r in vocab.keys():
+            merge = f"{piece_l}{piece_r}"
+            piece_id = vocab.get(merge, None)
+            if piece_id:
+                merges += [(piece_l, piece_r, piece_id)]
+        
+        return merges
 
 class YouTokenToMeExtractor:
     """