diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/jbigkit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/jbigkit/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8b95a8a48072
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/jbigkit/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "jbigkit-2.1";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/download/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0cnrcdr1dwp7h7m0a56qw09bv08krb37mpf7cml5sjdgpyv0cwfy";
+  };
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    install -D -m644 libjbig/libjbig.a $out/lib/libjbig.a
+    install -D -m644 libjbig/libjbig85.a $out/lib/libjbig85.a
+    install -D -m644 libjbig/jbig.h $out/include/jbig.h
+    install -D -m644 libjbig/jbig_ar.h $out/include/jbig_ar.h
+    install -D -m644 libjbig/jbig85.h $out/include/jbig85.h
+
+    install -d -m755 $out/share/man/man1
+    install -m644 pbmtools/*.1* $out/share/man/man1
+
+    install -D -m755 pbmtools/jbgtopbm $out/bin/jbgtopbm
+    install -D -m755 pbmtools/pbmtojbg $out/bin/pbmtojbg
+    install -D -m755 pbmtools/jbgtopbm85 $out/bin/jbgtopbm85
+    install -D -m755 pbmtools/pbmtojbg85 $out/bin/pbmtojbg85
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/jbigkit/";
+    description = "a software implementation of the JBIG1 data compression standard";
+    license = licenses.gpl2;
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ wkennington ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 51ac5fb9741e..1c8a72956d57 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6077,6 +6077,8 @@ let
 
   jbig2dec = callPackage ../development/libraries/jbig2dec { };
 
+  jbigkit = callPackage ../development/libraries/jbigkit { };
+
   jemalloc = callPackage ../development/libraries/jemalloc { };
 
   jetty_gwt = callPackage ../development/libraries/java/jetty-gwt { };