diff --git a/dev-ml/camlpdf/Manifest b/dev-ml/camlpdf/Manifest
index fce797256b8e9..33040fb870b61 100644
--- a/dev-ml/camlpdf/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ml/camlpdf/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST camlpdf-2.3.1.tar.gz 601531 BLAKE2B 9534baf9165e7dc48ae37a3fcaabb236e437845ef4e0a60a1c08874a2b240c9b1e96de5bbd6028a3ca87992221773dea34c31b0fa24e9c143632756954baf132 SHA512 0b8d91b6090221f996aee52f22f153a4b74cb85a127bbd5f84492ede8a0a581971a2349281b3879d6c37f4d5d267da583e7e8871372d97a3d636abc3231cb007
+DIST camlpdf-2.7.1.tar.gz 841886 BLAKE2B 30215949fab2517e00cf520ef4f79a6fbf49173e7e2643ac1a47d0dd945063908de2928f7181d2182ad4fe51945bb3f6a89a54aa236a889ea392cd126ef856c8 SHA512 2480a282a6ce09444ed14a3f41561375ecf7e3c57f7559a48ad9791d9f824e59820bfd39aa36910ff6bdc9b160cef76ab90dbbfe628c836c3f5c5081dfd5e452
diff --git a/dev-ml/camlpdf/camlpdf-2.7.1.ebuild b/dev-ml/camlpdf/camlpdf-2.7.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..1aada1b8ee02e
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+++ b/dev-ml/camlpdf/camlpdf-2.7.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit findlib
+
+DESCRIPTION="OCaml library for reading, writing, and modifying PDF files"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/johnwhitington/camlpdf/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/johnwhitington/${PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+# technically LGPL-2.1+ with linking exception
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1-with-linking-exception LGPL-2.1+"
+SLOT="0/${PV}"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="doc examples"
+
+RDEPEND="dev-lang/ocaml:=[ocamlopt]"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+src_compile() {
+	# parallel make bugs
+	emake -j1
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	findlib_src_install
+	dodoc Changes README.md
+
+	if use doc ; then
+		dodoc introduction_to_camlpdf.pdf
+		dodoc -r doc/camlpdf/html
+	fi
+
+	use examples && dodoc -r examples
+}