diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pdftotext/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pdftotext/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6c3b1c0cb925
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pdftotext/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, poppler }:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "pdftotext";
+  version = "2.1.1";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1jwc2zpss0983wqqi0kpichasljsxar9c4ma8vycn8maw3pi3bg3";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ poppler ];
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Simple PDF text extraction";
+    homepage = https://github.com/jalan/pdftotext;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ earvstedt ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 50320973698e..ad7f47b0ccad 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -582,6 +582,8 @@ in {
 
   pdfminer = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pdfminer_six { };
 
+  pdftotext = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pdftotext { };
+
   pdfx = callPackage ../development/python-modules/pdfx { };
 
   perf = callPackage ../development/python-modules/perf { };