diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
index 93b0f8f805577..b8b802d9a3258 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-common.nix
@@ -3121,4 +3121,17 @@ self: super: {
     sha256 = "sha256-1QEaoO8BTdvfFzMrybrf0v7cK0NbYrWOj4Mqexr+ylc=";
   }) super.avro;
 
+  pdftotext = overrideCabal (drv: {
+      postPatch = ''
+        # Fixes https://todo.sr.ht/~geyaeb/haskell-pdftotext/6
+        substituteInPlace pdftotext.cabal --replace-quiet c-sources cxx-sources
+
+        # Fix cabal ignoring cxx because the cabal format version is too old
+        substituteInPlace pdftotext.cabal --replace-quiet ">=1.10" 2.2
+
+        # Fix wrong license name that breaks recent cabal version
+        substituteInPlace pdftotext.cabal --replace-quiet BSD3 BSD-3-Clause
+      '' + (drv.postPatch or "");
+    }) (doJailbreak (addExtraLibrary pkgs.pkg-config (addExtraLibrary pkgs.poppler super.pdftotext)));
+
 } // import ./configuration-tensorflow.nix {inherit pkgs haskellLib;} self super
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/broken.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/broken.yaml
index e148c058b4006..31fbd0963723e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/broken.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/broken.yaml
@@ -4430,7 +4430,6 @@ broken-packages:
   - pdfinfo # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233214432 at 2023-09-02
   - pdf-slave-template # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233217870 at 2023-09-02
   - pdf-toolbox-viewer # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233196461 at 2023-09-02
-  - pdftotext # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233242086 at 2023-09-02
   - pdynload # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233226504 at 2023-09-02
   - PeanoWitnesses # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233207451 at 2023-09-02
   - pecoff # failure in job https://hydra.nixos.org/build/233231268 at 2023-09-02
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml
index 25acdf1e4a462..1de5ba12adfe6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/configuration-hackage2nix/main.yaml
@@ -663,6 +663,7 @@ package-maintainers:
     - typerep-map
     - minio-hs
     - smtp-mail
+    - pdftotext
 
 unsupported-platforms:
   Allure:                                       [ platforms.darwin ]
diff --git a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
index 9634ee6bb4ce1..9eef3b059e623 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/haskell-modules/hackage-packages.nix
@@ -233563,9 +233563,7 @@ self: {
        testToolDepends = [ hspec-discover ];
        description = "Extracts text from PDF using poppler";
        license = lib.licenses.bsd3;
-       hydraPlatforms = lib.platforms.none;
        mainProgram = "pdftotext.hs";
-       broken = true;
      }) {poppler-cpp = null;};
 
   "pdynload" = callPackage