diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-doctr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-doctr/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6e034b404ec7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-doctr/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+{ lib, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi, fetchFromGitHub, fetchurl, fetchgit, git, glibc, python3Packages }:
+
+let
+  mplcursors = buildPythonPackage rec {
+    pname = "mplcursors";
+    version = "0.3";
+
+    src = fetchPypi {
+      inherit pname version;
+      sha256 = "sha256-DjLBxhP4g6Q21TrWWMA3er2ErAI12UDBNeEclKG679A";
+    };
+
+    # Build-time dependencies
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ python3Packages.setuptools_scm ];
+
+    # Run-time dependencies
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [
+      python3Packages.matplotlib
+      python3Packages.pytest
+      python3Packages.weasyprint
+    ] ++ lib.optional (python3Packages.pythonOlder "3.8") python3Packages.importlib-metadata;
+
+    meta = with lib; {
+      description = "Interactive cursors for Matplotlib";
+      homepage = "https://example.com/mplcursors";
+      license = licenses.mit;
+    };
+  };
+
+  ctypesgen = buildPythonPackage rec {
+    pname = "ctypesgen";
+    version = "pypdfium2";
+
+    src = fetchFromGitHub {
+      owner = "pypdfium2-team";
+      repo = "ctypesgen";
+      rev = "pypdfium2";
+      sha256 = "sha256-klc6mouJ8w/xIgx8xmDXrui5Ebyicg++KIgr+b5ozbk=";
+    };
+
+    # Specify native build inputs
+    nativeBuildInputs = with python3Packages; [
+      setuptools
+      wheel
+      setuptools_scm
+      tomli
+    ];
+
+    buildInputs = [ glibc ];
+
+    # Custom patching steps
+    postPatch = ''
+      export SETUPTOOLS_SCM_PRETEND_VERSION=1.0.0 # fake version
+      mkdir -p dist
+    '';
+
+    # Disable checks if necessary
+    doCheck = false;
+
+    # Run-time dependencies
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [ python3Packages.wheel python3Packages.toml ];
+
+    meta = with lib; {
+      description = "Python bindings generator for C libraries";
+      homepage = "https://github.com/pypdfium2-team/ctypesgen";
+      license = licenses.mit;
+    };
+  };
+
+  pypdfium2 = buildPythonPackage rec {
+    pname = "pypdfium2";
+    version = "4.24.0";
+
+    src = fetchPypi {
+      inherit pname version;
+      sha256 = "sha256-YnBsBrxb45qnolMa+AJCBCm2xMR0mO69JSGvfpiNCEg=";
+    };
+
+    # Additional source and binary fetching
+    headers = fetchurl {
+      url = "https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+archive/7233e99fcaeb18adbf048be2df0b1cca355abc70/public.tar.gz";
+      sha256 = "sha256-920OK/8UXrwwlf+FBrIKdTl3Q35W1li/BEpGknbtRlU=";
+    };
+
+    binaries = fetchurl {
+      url = "https://github.com/bblanchon/pdfium-binaries/releases/download/chromium%2F6124/pdfium-linux-x64.tgz";
+      sha256 = "sha256-nFIwGgpwFV31rgu6ZFZtrcAAEltBNPgoVy5hR7evbA8=";
+    };
+
+    # Patches and post-patch steps
+    patches = [ ./pypdfdfium2-get-binaries.patch ];
+
+    # Place headers and binary downloads in the expected locations
+    postPatch = ''
+      mkdir -p data/bindings/headers
+      tar -xzf ${headers} -C data/bindings/headers
+      mkdir -p data/linux_x64
+      cp ${binaries} data/linux_x64/pdfium-linux-x64.tgz
+      cp ${binaries} pdfium-linux-x64.tgz
+    '';
+
+    # Fetching pdfium binaries
+    pdfium-binaries = fetchgit {
+      url = "https://github.com/bblanchon/pdfium-binaries.git";
+      rev = "chromium/6124";
+      sha256 = "sha256-2GfuqI95RLLhSC13Qc97wK/XrAqPxnDNfiFD2hNK4+A=";
+    };
+
+    # Native build inputs
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ git ctypesgen ];
+
+    meta = with lib; {
+      description = "Python bindings for the PDFium library";
+      homepage = "https://example.com/pypdfium2";
+      license = licenses.mit;
+    };
+  };
+
+  python-doctr = buildPythonPackage rec {
+    pname = "python-doctr";
+    version = "0.7.0";
+
+    src = fetchPypi {
+      inherit pname version;
+      sha256 = "sha256-4F7yC8WPxiyA0vOWjtOADLFXf8k1OkZTw6eyw+D2SFU=";
+    };
+
+    # Build-time dependencies
+    nativeBuildInputs = [ python3Packages.pip ];
+
+    # Run-time dependencies
+    propagatedBuildInputs = [
+      python3Packages.opencv4
+      python3Packages.setuptools
+      python3Packages.huggingface-hub
+      python3Packages.unidecode
+      python3Packages.rapidfuzz
+      python3Packages.langdetect
+      python3Packages.shapely
+      python3Packages.pyclipper
+      python3Packages.scipy
+      python3Packages.h5py
+      mplcursors
+      pypdfium2
+    ];
+
+    # Disable checks if necessary
+    doCheck = false;
+
+    meta = with lib; {
+      description = "A powerful tool for Python documentation";
+      homepage = "https://example.com/python-doctr";
+      license = licenses.mit;
+    };
+  };
+
+  # Override for python-doctr with additional dependencies for pyTorch
+  python-doctr-pytorch = python3Packages.toPythonModule (python-doctr.overridePythonAttrs (oldAttrs: {
+    propagatedBuildInputs = oldAttrs.propagatedBuildInputs ++ [
+      python3Packages.torch
+      python3Packages.torchvision
+    ];
+  }));
+
+in
+{
+  packages = {
+    python-doctr = python-doctr;
+    python-doctr-pytorch = python-doctr-pytorch;
+  };
+
+  defaultPackage.x86_64-linux = python-doctr;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-doctr/pypdfium2-get-binaries.patch b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-doctr/pypdfium2-get-binaries.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e03a207f63c5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/python-doctr/pypdfium2-get-binaries.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+diff --git a/setupsrc/pypdfium2_setup/packaging_base.py b/setupsrc/pypdfium2_setup/packaging_base.py
+index 8fa4a70..1df4ec6 100644
+--- a/setupsrc/pypdfium2_setup/packaging_base.py
++++ b/setupsrc/pypdfium2_setup/packaging_base.py
+@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ LibnameForSystem = {
+ BinaryPlatforms = list(ReleaseNames.keys())
+ BinarySystems   = list(LibnameForSystem.keys())
+ 
++NixHardcodedVersion = 6124
++
+ 
+ class PdfiumVer:
+     
+@@ -124,40 +126,20 @@ class PdfiumVer:
+     @staticmethod
+     @functools.lru_cache(maxsize=1)
+     def get_latest():
+-        git_ls = run_cmd(["git", "ls-remote", f"{ReleaseRepo}.git"], cwd=None, capture=True)
+-        tag = git_ls.split("\t")[-1]
+-        return int( tag.split("/")[-1] )
++        return NixHardcodedVersion
+     
+     @classmethod
+     def to_full(cls, v_short):
+-        
+-        # FIXME The ls-remote call is fairly expensive. While cached in memory for a process lifetime, it can cause a significant slowdown for consecutive process runs.
+-        # There may be multiple ways to improve this, like adding some disk cache to ensure it would only be called once for a whole session, or maybe adding a second strategy that would parse the pdfium-binaries VERSION file, and use the chromium refs only for sourcebuild.
+-        
+-        v_short = int(v_short)
+-        rc = cls._refs_cache
+-        
+-        if rc["lines"] is None:
+-            print(f"Fetching chromium refs ...", file=sys.stderr)
+-            ChromiumURL = "https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src"
+-            rc["lines"] = run_cmd(["git", "ls-remote", "--sort", "-version:refname", "--tags", ChromiumURL, '*.*.*.0'], cwd=None, capture=True).split("\n")
+-        
+-        if rc["cursor"] is None or rc["cursor"] > v_short:
+-            for i, line in enumerate(rc["lines"]):
+-                ref = line.split("\t")[-1].rsplit("/", maxsplit=1)[-1]
+-                full_ver = cls.scheme(*[int(v) for v in ref.split(".")])
+-                rc["dict"][full_ver.build] = full_ver
+-                if full_ver.build == v_short:
+-                    rc["cursor"] = full_ver.build
+-                    rc["lines"] = rc["lines"][i+1:]
+-                    break
+-        
+-        full_ver = rc["dict"][v_short]
+-        print(f"Resolved {v_short} -> {full_ver}", file=sys.stderr)
+-        
++        # can be found using 
++        # git ls-remote --sort -version:refname --tags https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src '*.*.*.0' | awk -F '/' '{print $NF}' | grep $NixHardcodedVersion
++        # where the minor shoud match the NixHardcodedVersion
++        # after which a dict is returned
++        PdfiumVerTuple = namedtuple("PdfiumVerTuple", ["build", "major", "minor", "patch"])
++
++        # Simulate a return value for full_ver
++        full_ver = PdfiumVerTuple(build=121, major=0, minor=NixHardcodedVersion, patch=0)
+         return full_ver
+ 
+-
+ def read_json(fp):
+     with open(fp, "r") as buf:
+         return json.load(buf)
+diff --git a/setupsrc/pypdfium2_setup/update_pdfium.py b/setupsrc/pypdfium2_setup/update_pdfium.py
+index f4d1b3f..2fdb3de 100755
+--- a/setupsrc/pypdfium2_setup/update_pdfium.py
++++ b/setupsrc/pypdfium2_setup/update_pdfium.py
+@@ -36,17 +36,8 @@ def _get_package(pl_name, version, robust, use_v8):
+     fn = prefix + f"{ReleaseNames[pl_name]}.tgz"
+     fu = f"{ReleaseURL}{version}/{fn}"
+     fp = pl_dir / fn
+-    print(f"'{fu}' -> '{fp}'")
+-    
+-    try:
+-        url_request.urlretrieve(fu, fp)
+-    except Exception:
+-        if robust:
+-            traceback.print_exc()
+-            return None, None
+-        else:
+-            raise
+     
++    print("OVERRIDE - using nix supplied package instead of downloading")
+     return pl_name, fp
+ 
+ 
+@@ -69,7 +60,8 @@ def extract(archives, version, flags):
+     
+     for pl_name, arc_path in archives.items():
+         
+-        with tarfile.open(arc_path) as tar:
++        arc_path_override = os.path.basename(arc_path)
++        with tarfile.open(arc_path_override) as tar:
+             pl_dir = DataDir/pl_name
+             system = plat_to_system(pl_name)
+             libname = LibnameForSystem[system]
+@@ -77,9 +69,6 @@ def extract(archives, version, flags):
+             tar_extract_file(tar, f"{tar_libdir}/{libname}", pl_dir/libname)
+             write_pdfium_info(pl_dir, version, origin="pdfium-binaries", flags=flags)
+         
+-        arc_path.unlink()
+-
+-
+ BinaryPlatforms = list(ReleaseNames.keys())
+ 
+ def main(platforms, version=None, robust=False, max_workers=None, use_v8=False):
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index b171e8e9ba753..88e71ba17d979 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -10171,6 +10171,8 @@ self: super: with self; {
 
   python-didl-lite = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-didl-lite { };
 
+  python-doctr = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-doctr { };
+
   python-docx = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-docx { };
 
   python-doi = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-doi { };