diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 3bfdbd28613..ab6c2c34c5e 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
   ederoyd46 = "Matthew Brown <matt@ederoyd.co.uk>";
   edwtjo = "Edward Tjörnhammar <ed@cflags.cc>";
   eelco = "Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>";
+  eikek = "Eike Kettner <eike.kettner@posteo.de>";
   ellis = "Ellis Whitehead <nixos@ellisw.net>";
   emery = "Emery Hemingway <emery@vfemail.net>";
   ertes = "Ertugrul Söylemez <ertesx@gmx.de>";
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/html2text/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/html2text/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..27de591d889
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/html2text/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "html2text-1.3.2a";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/downloads/html2text-1.3.2a.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "000b39d5d910b867ff7e087177b470a1e26e2819920dcffd5991c33f6d480392";
+  };
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    sed -i s,/bin/echo,echo, configure
+  '';
+
+  # the --prefix has no effect
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p $out/bin $out/man/man{1,5}
+    cp html2text $out/bin
+    cp html2text.1.gz $out/man/man1
+    cp html2textrc.5.gz $out/man/man5
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "html2text is a command line utility, written in C++, that converts HTML documents into plain text.";
+    homepage = http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/;
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.eikek ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 168b2088ae1..a5314759b71 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2585,6 +2585,8 @@ let
 
   testdisk = callPackage ../tools/misc/testdisk { };
 
+  html2text = callPackage ../tools/text/html2text { };
+
   htmlTidy = callPackage ../tools/text/html-tidy { };
 
   html-xml-utils = callPackage ../tools/text/xml/html-xml-utils { };