diff --git a/app-text/odt2txt/odt2txt-0.5.recipe b/app-text/odt2txt/odt2txt-0.5.recipe
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bb7f9054c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/odt2txt/odt2txt-0.5.recipe
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+SUMMARY="A simple converter from OpenDocument Text to plain text"
+DESCRIPTION="odt2txt is a command-line tool which extracts the text out of \
+OpenDocument Texts produced by LibreOffice, OpenOffice, StarOfficem, KOffice \
+and others."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/dstosberg/odt2txt"
+COPYRIGHT="2002-2016 Dennis Stosberg"
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/dstosberg/odt2txt/archive/v$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="23a889109ca9087a719c638758f14cc3b867a5dcf30a6c90bf6a0985073556dd"
+PATCHES="odt2txt-$portVersion.patch"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	odt2txt = $portVersion
+	cmd:odt2txt = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku
+	lib:libiconv
+	lib:libz
+	lib:libzip
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku_devel
+	devel:libiconv
+	devel:libz
+	devel:libzip
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:gcc
+	cmd:groff
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:pkg_config
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	make HAVE_LIBZIP=1 $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	# Upstream Makefile has DESTDIR set to /usr/local mistakenly,
+	# hence the need to unset it.
+	make install HAVE_LIBZIP=1 DESTDIR= PREFIX=$prefix MANDIR=$manDir
+}
diff --git a/app-text/odt2txt/patches/odt2txt-0.5.patch b/app-text/odt2txt/patches/odt2txt-0.5.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..af4436db3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/odt2txt/patches/odt2txt-0.5.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- a/Makefile
++++ b/Makefile
+@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@
+ ifeq ($(UNAME_S),NetBSD)
+ 	CFLAGS += -DICONV_CHAR="const char"
+ endif
++ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Haiku)
++	# libzip installs headers to a non-standard dir on Haiku
++	CFLAGS += $(shell pkg-config --cflags libzip)
++	LIBS += -liconv
++endif
+ ifeq ($(UNAME_S),SunOS)
+ 	ifeq ($(CC),cc)
+ 		ifdef DEBUG