The document discusses various refactoring techniques organized into categories including composing methods, moving features between objects, organizing data, simplifying conditional expressions, simplifying method calls, and dealing with generalization. Some specific techniques mentioned are extract method, move method, encapsulate field, replace nested conditional with guard clauses, add parameter, and form template method. The goal of refactoring is to improve the design of existing code through techniques like extracting duplicate code or conditional logic, simplifying interfaces, and managing dependencies between code elements.