diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 074dbdbce06..1bfe00916b0 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -976,3 +976,4 @@ libecryptfs.so.0 libecryptfs-100_1
 libmuffin.so.0 libmuffin-1.0.6_1
 libnuma.so.1 libnuma-2.0.7_1
 libxar.so.1 xar-1.5.2_1
+libqpdf.so.8 libqpdf-3.0.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libqpdf b/srcpkgs/libqpdf
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..5fcdd8c0c04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libqpdf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+qpdf
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libqpdf-devel b/srcpkgs/libqpdf-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..5fcdd8c0c04
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libqpdf-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+qpdf
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qpdf/libqpdf-devel.template b/srcpkgs/qpdf/libqpdf-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e36e7aff512
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/qpdf/libqpdf-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Template file for 'qpdf-devel'.
+#
+noarch=yes
+depends="libqpdf>=${version}"
+short_desc="${short_desc} -- development files"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qpdf/libqpdf.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/qpdf/libqpdf.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ed1734a7d85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/qpdf/libqpdf.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+libpcre.so.1
+libz.so.1
+libstdc++.so.6
+libm.so.6
+libc.so.6
+libgcc_s.so.1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qpdf/libqpdf.template b/srcpkgs/qpdf/libqpdf.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..968b94ae6ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/qpdf/libqpdf.template
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Template file for 'libqpdf'.
+#
+short_desc="${short_desc} -- shared library"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains the shared library."
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove "usr/lib/*.so*" usr/lib
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qpdf/qpdf.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/qpdf/qpdf.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..29270ecb9ae
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/qpdf/qpdf.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+libqpdf.so.8
+libstdc++.so.6
+libc.so.6
+libgcc_s.so.1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/qpdf/template b/srcpkgs/qpdf/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..92cfd6f818d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/qpdf/template
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# Template file for 'qpdf'
+pkgname=qpdf
+version=3.0.1
+revision=1
+subpackages="libqpdf libqpdf-devel"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--disable-static"
+makedepends="automake perl pcre-devel"
+short_desc="A Content-Preserving PDF Transformation System"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="Artistic-2.0"
+homepage="http://qpdf.sourceforget.net"
+distfiles="${SOURCEFORGE_SITE}/qpdf/qpdf-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=db65d6f4f0462d4793049afb7edf9ac9386fb8bdb51d10b5b88a004e1cc36bc6
+long_desc="
+ QPDF is a command-line program that does structural, content-preserving
+ transformations on PDF files. It could have been called something like
+ pdf-to-pdf. It also provides many useful capabilities to developers of
+ PDF-producing software or for people who just want to look at the innards
+ of a PDF file to learn more about how they work."
+
+pre_configure() {
+	autoreconf -fi
+}