diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/dmtx-utils/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/graphics/dmtx-utils/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0fe473f5d634
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/graphics/dmtx-utils/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl, libdmtx, pkgconfig}:
+let
+  s = # Generated upstream information
+  rec {
+    baseName="dmtx-utils";
+    version="0.7.4";
+    name="${baseName}-${version}";
+    hash="1di8ymlziy9856abd6rb72z0zqzmrff4r3vql0q9r5sk5ax4s417";
+    url="mirror://sourceforge/project/libdmtx/libdmtx/0.7.4/dmtx-utils-0.7.4.tar.gz";
+    sha256="1di8ymlziy9856abd6rb72z0zqzmrff4r3vql0q9r5sk5ax4s417";
+  };
+  buildInputs = [
+    libdmtx pkgconfig
+  ];
+in
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  inherit (s) name version;
+  inherit buildInputs;
+  src = fetchurl {
+    inherit (s) url sha256;
+  };
+  meta = {
+    inherit (s) version;
+    description = "Data matrix command-line utilities";
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl2 ;
+    maintainers = [stdenv.lib.maintainers.raskin];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/dmtx-utils/default.upstream b/pkgs/tools/graphics/dmtx-utils/default.upstream
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8768681642e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/graphics/dmtx-utils/default.upstream
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+url http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdmtx/files/libdmtx/
+SF_version_dir
+version_link 'dmtx-utils-.*[.]tar[.][a-z0-9]+/download$'
+SF_redirect
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/graphics/dmtx/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/graphics/dmtx/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 30b3baa4690b..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/graphics/dmtx/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-args :
-let
-  lib = args.lib;
-  fetchurl = args.fetchurl;
-
-  version = lib.attrByPath ["version"] "0.7.4" args;
-  buildInputs = with args; [
-    libpng libtiff libjpeg librsvg imagemagick pkgconfig
-    zlib libX11 bzip2 libtool freetype fontconfig
-    ghostscript jasper xz
-  ];
-in
-rec {
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = "mirror://sourceforge/libdmtx/libdmtx-${version}.tar.bz2";
-    sha256 = "0xnxx075ycy58n92yfda2z9zgd41h3d4ik5d9l197lzsqim5hb5n";
-  };
-
-  inherit buildInputs;
-  configureFlags = [];
-
-  /* doConfigure should be specified separately */
-  phaseNames = ["doConfigure" "doMakeInstall"];
-
-  name = "dmtx-" + version;
-  meta = {
-    description = "DataMatrix (2D bar code) processing tools";
-    maintainers = [args.lib.maintainers.raskin];
-    platforms = args.lib.platforms.linux;
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index bd9ec3ebbfb7..c4c4454b5116 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -8952,11 +8952,9 @@ let
     enableXft = config.dmenu.enableXft or false;
   };
 
-  dmtx = builderDefsPackage (import ../tools/graphics/dmtx) {
-    inherit libpng libtiff libjpeg imagemagick librsvg
-      pkgconfig bzip2 zlib libtool freetype fontconfig
-      ghostscript jasper xz;
-    inherit (xlibs) libX11;
+  dmtx = dmtx-utils;
+
+  dmtx-utils = callPackage (import ../tools/graphics/dmtx-utils) {
   };
 
   docker = callPackage ../applications/virtualization/docker { };