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+# - Try to find the poppler PDF library
+# Once done this will define
+#
+#  POPPLER_FOUND - system has poppler
+#  POPPLER_INCLUDE_DIR - the poppler include directory
+#  POPPLER_LIBRARY - Link this to use poppler
+#
+
+# use pkg-config to get the directories and then use these values
+# in the FIND_PATH() and FIND_LIBRARY() calls
+INCLUDE(UsePkgConfig)
+
+PKGCONFIG(poppler _PopplerIncDir _PopplerLinkDir _PopplerLinkFlags _PopplerCflags)
+
+if(_PopplerLinkFlags)
+  # find again pkg-config, to query it about poppler version
+  FIND_PROGRAM(PKGCONFIG_EXECUTABLE NAMES pkg-config PATHS /usr/bin/ /usr/local/bin )
+
+  # query pkg-config asking for a poppler >= 0.5.1
+  EXEC_PROGRAM(${PKGCONFIG_EXECUTABLE} ARGS --atleast-version=0.5.1 poppler RETURN_VALUE _return_VALUE OUTPUT_VARIABLE _pkgconfigDevNull )
+  if(_return_VALUE STREQUAL "0")
+    set(POPPLER_FOUND TRUE)
+  endif(_return_VALUE STREQUAL "0")
+endif(_PopplerLinkFlags)
+
+if (POPPLER_FOUND)
+  set(POPPLER_INCLUDE_DIR ${_PopplerIncDir})
+  set(POPPLER_LIBRARY ${_PopplerLinkFlags})
+  if (NOT POPPLER_FIND_QUIETLY)
+    message(STATUS "Found Poppler: ${POPPLER_LIBRARY}")
+  endif (NOT POPPLER_FIND_QUIETLY)
+else (POPPLER_FOUND)
+  if (POPPLER_FIND_REQUIRED)
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "Could NOT find POPPLER")
+  endif (POPPLER_FIND_REQUIRED)
+endif (POPPLER_FOUND)
+
+MARK_AS_ADVANCED(POPPLER_INCLUDE_DIR POPPLER_LIBRARY)