diff --git a/docs/customization.rst b/docs/customization.rst
index a1d68aa6..deab1e3c 100644
--- a/docs/customization.rst
+++ b/docs/customization.rst
@@ -158,6 +158,95 @@ the choice ``Enum`` are consolidated into component objects. You can register ad
         return result
 
 
+Step 6: Preprocessing
+---------------------
+
+While most schema problems should be addressed using postprocessing hooks, there
+are also two preprocessing settings ``ENDPOINT_ENUMERATOR_CLASS`` and ``DEFAULT_GENERATOR_CLASS``
+that can be changed to custom classes that alter the endpoints to be processed, and the
+broad generation process.
+
+The enumeration class can be used to exclude certain endpoints, preventing them from
+going through the inspection of the generation processes.
+
+The following prevents any occurrence of `{format}` at the end of endpoint paths.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    class NoFormatEndpointEnumerator(EndpointEnumerator):
+
+        def should_include_endpoint(self, path, callback):
+            """
+            Return `True` if the given endpoint should be included.
+            """
+            if not super().should_include_endpoint(path, callback):
+                return False
+
+            # DRF only excludes .json style URLs.
+            # This also excludes other uses of `{format}` at the end of the path
+            if path.endswith('{format}') or path.endswith('{format}/'):
+                return False
+
+            return True
+
+
+The generator class is responsible for the entire process of generating the
+OpenAPI document.  It provides the implementation for instantiating views and view inspectors
+for each enumerated endpoint, obtaining the schemas from each view inspector, and
+combining everything into the final OpenAPI document.
+
+This includes checking of the view permissions and API versioning of the endpoints.
+
+As such, extending the schema generator class provides many opportunities for radically
+altering the way the API is constructed.
+
+For example, if using ``@extend_schema`` and extensions are impractical because there are many views
+using the same pattern that the schema inspector does not support, or seems impossible because the
+views are dynamically generated or varies based on the request, a custom view inspector can be created
+for those views.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    class ProjectSpecificSchemaGenerator(SchemaGenerator):
+
+        def create_view(self, callback, method, request=None):
+            if hasattr(view, 'get_response_serializer'):
+                from drf_spectacular.openapi import AutoSchema
+                import mock
+
+                request = mock.Mock()
+                request.method = method
+                ...
+
+                view = super().create_view(callback, method, request)
+
+                response_serializer = view.get_response_serializer()
+
+                class CustomResponseSchema(AutoSchema):
+                    def get_response_serializers(self):
+                        return response_serializer
+
+                view.schema = CustomResponseSchema()
+                return view
+
+            return super().create_view(callback, method, request)
+
+
+If the view instantiation and resulting schema does not depend on the request,
+the above example could be more simply achieved by extending
+:py:class:`AutoSchema <drf_spectacular.openapi.AutoSchema>`,
+and declaring that in ``REST_FRAMEWORK['DEFAULT_SCHEMA_CLASS']``.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    class ProjectSpecificAutoSchema(AutoSchema):
+        def get_response_serializers(self):
+            if hasattr(self.view, 'get_response_serializer'):
+                return self.view.response_serializer
+            else:
+                return super().get_response_serializers()
+
+
 Congratulations
 ---------------
 
diff --git a/drf_spectacular/generators.py b/drf_spectacular/generators.py
index 7ca7f537..7edbf06d 100644
--- a/drf_spectacular/generators.py
+++ b/drf_spectacular/generators.py
@@ -56,12 +56,14 @@ def _get_api_endpoints(self, patterns, prefix):
 
 
 class SchemaGenerator(BaseSchemaGenerator):
-    endpoint_inspector_cls = EndpointEnumerator
+    endpoint_inspector_cls = None
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         self.registry = ComponentRegistry()
         self.api_version = kwargs.pop('api_version', None)
         self.inspector = None
+        self.endpoint_inspector_cls = spectacular_settings.ENDPOINT_ENUMERATOR_CLASS
+
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
 
     def create_view(self, callback, method, request=None):
diff --git a/drf_spectacular/settings.py b/drf_spectacular/settings.py
index 71d4b604..3a3dfa3c 100644
--- a/drf_spectacular/settings.py
+++ b/drf_spectacular/settings.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     # path prefix is used for tagging the discovered operations.
     # use '/api/v[0-9]' for tagging apis like '/api/v1/albums' with ['albums']
     'SCHEMA_PATH_PREFIX': r'',
+    'ENDPOINT_ENUMERATOR_CLASS': 'drf_spectacular.generators.EndpointEnumerator',
     'DEFAULT_GENERATOR_CLASS': 'drf_spectacular.generators.SchemaGenerator',
 
     # Schema generation parameters to influence how components are constructed.
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@
 IMPORT_STRINGS = [
     'SCHEMA_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES',
     'DEFAULT_GENERATOR_CLASS',
+    'ENDPOINT_ENUMERATOR_CLASS',
     'SERVE_PERMISSIONS',
     'POSTPROCESSING_HOOKS',
     'GET_LIB_DOC_EXCLUDES',