diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index 31a8fae6ce8..a2bf256bb85 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -1606,3 +1606,5 @@ libGraphicsMagick++.so.3 libgraphicsmagick-1.3.19_1
 libGraphicsMagickWand.so.2 libgraphicsmagick-1.3.19_1
 liblensfun.so.0 lensfun-0.2.8_2
 libmitlm.so.0 mitlm-0.4.1_1
+libextractor.so.3 libextractor-1.1_1
+libextractor_common.so.1 libextractor-1.1_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libextractor-devel b/srcpkgs/libextractor-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..f0c3a32a9d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libextractor-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+libextractor
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libextractor/patches/AVCodec_compiler_error.patch b/srcpkgs/libextractor/patches/AVCodec_compiler_error.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..58570e6a684
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libextractor/patches/AVCodec_compiler_error.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- src/plugins/thumbnailffmpeg_extractor.c.orig	2014-05-08 21:07:41.546845538 +0200
++++ src/plugins/thumbnailffmpeg_extractor.c	2014-05-08 21:08:30.389842241 +0200
+@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
+  * @param ec extraction context to use
+  */
+ static void
+-extract_image (enum CodecID image_codec_id,
++extract_image (enum AVCodecID image_codec_id,
+                struct EXTRACTOR_ExtractContext *ec)
+ {
+   AVDictionary *opts;
+@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@
+   /**
+    * Corresponding ffmpeg decoder ID.
+    */
+-  enum CodecID codec_id;
++  enum AVCodecID codec_id;
+ };
+ 
+ 
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libextractor/template b/srcpkgs/libextractor/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..398ef5d2c97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libextractor/template
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Template file for 'libextractor'
+pkgname=libextractor
+version=1.1
+revision=1
+short_desc="Library used to extract meta data from files"
+maintainer="Martin Riese <grauehaare@gmx.de>"
+license="MIT"
+homepage="http://www.gnu.org/software/libextractor/"
+distfiles="http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libextractor/libextractor-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum="cbb7c2f7f92654dc09b8e5c5e353a49609a22b222ba23c944fcc14f2223172ff"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--disable-static"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
+makedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel exiv2-devel tiff-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libvorbis-devel libflac-devel giflib-devel libmpeg2-devel ffmpeg-devel gtk+3-devel gstreamer-devel libltdl-devel libavformat libavcodec"
+
+libextractor-devel_package() {
+	short_desc+=" - development files"
+	depends="libmitlm>=${version}_${revision}"
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove usr/include
+		vmove usr/lib/*.so.*
+	}
+}