diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindPoppler.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindPoppler.cmake
index 35ac2bafa..5b5fb6a21 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/FindPoppler.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/FindPoppler.cmake
@@ -33,10 +33,22 @@ if(_PopplerLinkFlags)
   if(_return_VALUE STREQUAL "0")
     set(POPPLER_FOUND TRUE)
   endif(_return_VALUE STREQUAL "0")
+else(_PopplerLinkFlags)
+  # try to find poppler without pkgconfig
+  find_library( LIBPOPPLER poppler )
+  find_library( LIBPOPPLER_QT4 poppler-qt4 )
+  find_path( INCLUDEPOPPLERQT4 qt4/poppler-qt4.h )
+  find_path( INCLUDEPOPPLER poppler-qt4.h PATHS ${INCLUDEPOPPLERQT4}/qt4 )
+  if( LIBPOPPLER_QT4 AND LIBPOPPLER AND INCLUDEPOPPLER )
+    set( POPPLER_FOUND TRUE )
+  endif( LIBPOPPLER_QT4 AND LIBPOPPLER AND INCLUDEPOPPLER )
 endif(_PopplerLinkFlags)
 
 if (POPPLER_FOUND)
   set(POPPLER_LIBRARY ${_PopplerLinkFlags})
+  if( LIBPOPPLER AND LIBPOPPLER_QT4 )
+    set( POPPLER_LIBRARY ${LIBPOPPLER} ${LIBPOPPLER_QT4} )
+  endif( LIBPOPPLER AND LIBPOPPLER_QT4 )
 
   # the cflags for poppler-qt4 can contain more than one include path
   separate_arguments(_PopplerCflags)
@@ -44,6 +56,9 @@ if (POPPLER_FOUND)
     string(REGEX REPLACE "-I(.+)" "\\1" _includedir "${_includedir}")
     set(POPPLER_INCLUDE_DIR ${POPPLER_INCLUDE_DIR} ${_includedir})
   endforeach(_includedir)
+  if( INCLUDEPOPPLER )
+    set( POPPLER_INCLUDE_DIR ${INCLUDEPOPPLER} )
+  endif( INCLUDEPOPPLER )
 
   # check whether we're using poppler 0.6
   set(CMAKE_REQUIRED_INCLUDES ${POPPLER_INCLUDE_DIR} ${QT_INCLUDE_DIR})