diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pdf2image/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pdf2image/default.nix
index c3c0538bf503..f2ed6e7a297c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/pdf2image/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/pdf2image/default.nix
@@ -4,13 +4,18 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   pname = "pdf2image";
   version = "1.16.0";
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pillow poppler_utils ];
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ pillow ];
 
   src = fetchPypi {
     inherit pname version;
     sha256 = "d58ed94d978a70c73c2bb7fdf8acbaf2a7089c29ff8141be5f45433c0c4293bb";
   };
 
+  postPatch = ''
+    # Only replace first match in file
+    sed -i '0,/poppler_path=None/s||poppler_path="${poppler_utils}/bin"|' pdf2image/pdf2image.py
+  '';
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "A python module that wraps the pdftoppm utility to convert PDF to PIL Image object";
     homepage = "https://github.com/Belval/pdf2image";