diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/hocr-tools/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/hocr-tools/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d5492b3b641
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/hocr-tools/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+{ buildPythonPackage
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, lxml
+, pillow
+, reportlab
+, stdenv
+}:
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "hocr-tools";
+  version = "1.3.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "tmbdev";
+    repo = "${pname}";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "14f9hkp7pr677085w8iidwd0la9cjzy3pyj3rdg9b03nz9pc0w6p";
+  };
+
+  # hocr-tools uses a test framework that requires internet access
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pillow lxml reportlab ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "
+Tools for manipulating and evaluating the hOCR format for representing multi-lingual OCR results by embedding them into HTML";
+    homepage = https://github.com/tmbdev/hocr-tools;
+    license = licenses.asl20;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.kiwi ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 1830236aada..3d444b1544a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1692,6 +1692,8 @@ in
 
   hid-listen = callPackage ../tools/misc/hid-listen { };
 
+  hocr-tools = with python3Packages; toPythonApplication hocr-tools;
+
   home-manager = callPackage ../tools/package-management/home-manager {};
 
   hostsblock = callPackage ../tools/misc/hostsblock { };
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 78136971db3..d6b092d8bdb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -639,6 +639,8 @@ in {
 
   hdmedians = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hdmedians { };
 
+  hocr-tools = callPackage ../development/python-modules/hocr-tools { };
+
   holoviews = callPackage ../development/python-modules/holoviews { };
 
   hoomd-blue = toPythonModule (callPackage ../development/python-modules/hoomd-blue {