diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/leela/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/graphics/leela/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fa151420ebb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/graphics/leela/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, pkgconfig, poppler }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "leela-12.fe7a35a";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "TrilbyWhite";
+    repo = "Leela";
+    rev = "576a60185b191d3a3030fef10492fe32d2125563";
+    sha256 = "1k6n758r9dhjmc1pnpk6qzpg0q7pkq2hf18z3b0s2z198jpkg9s3";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig poppler ];
+
+  installFlags = [ "PREFIX=$(out)" "MANDIR=$(out)/share/man" ];
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "CLI frontend to the poppler-glib libary of PDF tools";
+    homepage = https://github.com/TrilbyWhite/Leela;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl3;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.puffnfresh ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index cf40adb5c7ed..8476d3cd37ff 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2057,6 +2057,8 @@ let
 
   leafpad = callPackage ../applications/editors/leafpad { };
 
+  leela = callPackage ../tools/graphics/leela { };
+
   lftp = callPackage ../tools/networking/lftp { };
 
   libconfig = callPackage ../development/libraries/libconfig { };