diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/pdf2htmlEX/add-glib-cmake.patch b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/pdf2htmlEX/add-glib-cmake.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e1d9dfc1914..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/pdf2htmlEX/add-glib-cmake.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
-index 3fdabb0..378621a 100644
---- a/CMakeLists.txt
-+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ include_directories(${FONTFORGE_INCLUDE_DIRS})
- link_directories(${FONTFORGE_LIBRARY_DIRS})
- set(PDF2HTMLEX_LIBS ${PDF2HTMLEX_LIBS} ${FONTFORGE_LIBRARIES})
-
-+# add glib dependency
-+pkg_check_modules(GLIB REQUIRED glib-2.0)
-+include_directories(${GLIB_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-+link_directories(${GLIB_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-+set(PDF2HTMLEX_LIBS ${PDF2HTMLEX_LIBS} ${GLIB_LIBRARIES})
-+
- # debug build flags (overwrite default cmake debug flags)
- set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "-ggdb -pg")
- set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG "-ggdb -pg")
diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/pdf2htmlEX/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/pdf2htmlEX/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index dee6ec3c6fff..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/pdf2htmlEX/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, cmake, pkgconfig
-, poppler, xorg, pcre, python, glib, fontforge, cairo, pango, openjdk8
-
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
- name = "pdf2htmlEX-0.14.6";
-
- src = fetchFromGitHub {
- repo = "pdf2htmlEX";
- owner = "coolwanglu";
- rev = "v0.14.6";
- sha256 = "1nh0ab8f11fsyi4ldknlkmdzcfvm1dfh8b9bmprjgq6q0vjj7f78";
- };
-
- patches = [ ./add-glib-cmake.patch ];
-
- cmakeFlags = [ "-DENABLE_SVG=ON" ];
-
- enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
- nativeBuildInputs = [
- cmake
- pkgconfig
- ];
-
- buildInputs = [
- xorg.libpthreadstubs
- xorg.libXdmcp
- pcre
- python
- glib
- cairo
- pango
- poppler
- fontforge
- openjdk8
- ];
-
- meta = with stdenv.lib; {
- description = "Render PDF files to beautiful HTML";
- homepage = "https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX";
- license = licenses.gpl3Plus;
- maintainers = [ maintainers.taktoa ];
- platforms = with platforms; linux;
- broken = true; # 2018-09-08
- };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index d84f317c7b29..c6d82af16cce 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -368,6 +368,7 @@ mapAliases ({
parity = openethereum; # added 2020-08-01
parquet-cpp = arrow-cpp; # added 2018-09-08
pass-otp = pass.withExtensions (ext: [ext.pass-otp]); # added 2018-05-04
+ pdf2htmlEx = throw "pdf2htmlEx has been removed from nixpkgs, as it was unmaintained"; # added 2020-11-03
perlXMLParser = perlPackages.XMLParser; # added 2018-10-12
perlArchiveCpio = perlPackages.ArchiveCpio; # added 2018-10-12
pgp-tools = signing-party; # added 2017-03-26
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b9d7526773ac..006a9dbe7650 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -6331,8 +6331,6 @@ in
pdf2djvu = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/pdf2djvu { };
- pdf2htmlEX = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/pdf2htmlEX { };
-
pdf2odt = callPackage ../tools/typesetting/pdf2odt { };
pdf-redact-tools = callPackage ../tools/graphics/pdfredacttools { };