diff --git a/fixtures/components/third-party-import-types/button/index.tsx b/fixtures/components/third-party-import-types/button/index.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..26010e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixtures/components/third-party-import-types/button/index.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+// Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+import * as React from 'react';
+
+import { ButtonProps } from './interfaces';
+
+export { ButtonProps };
+
+/**
+ * Component-level description
+ */
+export default function Button({ iconName }: ButtonProps) {
+  return <div className={iconName}>{iconName}</div>;
+}
diff --git a/fixtures/components/third-party-import-types/button/interfaces.ts b/fixtures/components/third-party-import-types/button/interfaces.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..23fac53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixtures/components/third-party-import-types/button/interfaces.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+// Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+import { IconProps } from '../node_modules/icon';
+
+export interface ButtonProps {
+  /**
+   * This is icon name
+   */
+  iconName: IconProps.Name;
+}
diff --git a/fixtures/components/third-party-import-types/tsconfig.json b/fixtures/components/third-party-import-types/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0c95ade
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixtures/components/third-party-import-types/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../tsconfig.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "rootDir": "button"
+  },
+  "include": ["button"]
+}
diff --git a/src/bootstrap/index.ts b/src/bootstrap/index.ts
index 7821398..871b73d 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/index.ts
+++ b/src/bootstrap/index.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ import { TypeDocAndTSOptions, Application, TSConfigReader, ProjectReflection } f
 import { matcher } from 'micromatch';
 import { resolve } from 'pathe';
 
-export function bootstrapProject(options: Partial<TypeDocAndTSOptions>, filteringGlob?: string): ProjectReflection {
+export function bootstrapProject(
+  options: Partial<TypeDocAndTSOptions>,
+  filteringGlob?: string,
+  nodeModulesInputFilePaths?: string[]
+): ProjectReflection {
   const app = new Application();
   app.options.addReader(new TSConfigReader());
 
@@ -14,6 +18,10 @@ export function bootstrapProject(options: Partial<TypeDocAndTSOptions>, filterin
     throw new Error('Errors during parsing configuration');
   }
 
+  if (nodeModulesInputFilePaths?.length) {
+    inputFiles.push(...nodeModulesInputFilePaths);
+  }
+
   const filteredInputFiles = filterFiles(inputFiles, filteringGlob);
   if (!filteredInputFiles.length) {
     throw new Error('No input files to convert');
diff --git a/src/components/components-extractor.ts b/src/components/components-extractor.ts
index 089cf97..e6e5f2c 100644
--- a/src/components/components-extractor.ts
+++ b/src/components/components-extractor.ts
@@ -86,11 +86,7 @@ function findProps(allDefinitions: DeclarationReflection[], propsName: string, d
   };
 }
 
-export default function extractComponents(
-  publicFilesGlob: string,
-  project: ProjectReflection,
-  hasCoreComponentTypeDependency?: boolean
-): ComponentDefinition[] {
+export default function extractComponents(publicFilesGlob: string, project: ProjectReflection): ComponentDefinition[] {
   const definitions: ComponentDefinition[] = [];
   const isMatch = matcher(resolve(publicFilesGlob));
 
@@ -100,10 +96,6 @@ export default function extractComponents(
 
   const allDefinitions = project.children.flatMap(module => {
     if (!module.children) {
-      if (hasCoreComponentTypeDependency) {
-        return [];
-      }
-
       throw new Error(`Module ${module.originalName} does not contain a definition.`);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/components/index.ts b/src/components/index.ts
index 05435e7..718bfbc 100644
--- a/src/components/index.ts
+++ b/src/components/index.ts
@@ -8,11 +8,17 @@ import { bootstrapProject } from '../bootstrap';
 export function documentComponents(
   tsconfigPath: string,
   publicFilesGlob: string,
-  hasCoreComponentTypeDependency?: boolean
+  nodeModulesInputFilePaths?: string[]
 ): ComponentDefinition[] {
-  const project = bootstrapProject({
-    tsconfig: tsconfigPath,
-    includeDeclarations: hasCoreComponentTypeDependency,
-  });
-  return extractComponents(publicFilesGlob, project, hasCoreComponentTypeDependency);
+  const includeNodeModulePaths = Boolean(nodeModulesInputFilePaths?.length);
+  const project = bootstrapProject(
+    {
+      tsconfig: tsconfigPath,
+      includeDeclarations: includeNodeModulePaths,
+      excludeExternals: includeNodeModulePaths,
+    },
+    undefined,
+    nodeModulesInputFilePaths
+  );
+  return extractComponents(publicFilesGlob, project);
 }
diff --git a/test/components/test-helpers.ts b/test/components/test-helpers.ts
index cbb4d18..daf4909 100644
--- a/test/components/test-helpers.ts
+++ b/test/components/test-helpers.ts
@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ import { TestUtilsDoc } from '../../src/test-utils/interfaces';
 
 // TODO: Move this file into common location, improve naming
 
-export function buildProject(name: string): ComponentDefinition[] {
+export function buildProject(name: string, nodeModulesInputFilePaths?: string[]): ComponentDefinition[] {
   return documentComponents(
     require.resolve(`../../fixtures/components/${name}/tsconfig.json`),
-    `fixtures/components/${name}/*/index.tsx`
+    `fixtures/components/${name}/*/index.tsx`,
+    nodeModulesInputFilePaths
   );
 }
 
diff --git a/test/components/third-party-import-types.test.ts b/test/components/third-party-import-types.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e4b77a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/components/third-party-import-types.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+// Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+import { buildProject } from './test-helpers';
+import { ComponentDefinition } from '../../src';
+import process from 'node:process';
+const cwd = process.cwd();
+
+test('should resolve object type to string', () => {
+  const resultBefore = buildProject('third-party-import-types');
+  const buttonBefore: ComponentDefinition | undefined = resultBefore.find(component => component.name === 'Button');
+
+  expect(buttonBefore?.properties).toEqual([
+    {
+      name: 'iconName',
+      type: 'IconProps.Name',
+      inlineType: undefined,
+      optional: false,
+      description: 'This is icon name',
+      defaultValue: undefined,
+      visualRefreshTag: undefined,
+      deprecatedTag: undefined,
+      i18nTag: undefined,
+      analyticsTag: undefined,
+    },
+  ]);
+
+  const resultAfter = buildProject('third-party-import-types', [
+    `${cwd}/fixtures/components/third-party-import-types/node_modules/icon/interfaces.d.ts`,
+  ]);
+  const buttonAfter: ComponentDefinition | undefined = resultAfter.find(component => component.name === 'Button');
+
+  expect(buttonAfter?.properties).toEqual([
+    {
+      name: 'iconName',
+      type: 'string',
+      inlineType: { name: 'IconProps.Name', type: 'union', values: ['icon1', 'icon2', 'icon3'] },
+      optional: false,
+      description: 'This is icon name',
+      defaultValue: undefined,
+      visualRefreshTag: undefined,
+      deprecatedTag: undefined,
+      i18nTag: undefined,
+      analyticsTag: undefined,
+    },
+  ]);
+});