diff --git a/gnu-system.am b/gnu-system.am
index 4adc90cd3b..d610aeae11 100644
--- a/gnu-system.am
+++ b/gnu-system.am
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES =				\
   gnu/packages/openldap.scm			\
   gnu/packages/openssl.scm			\
   gnu/packages/orpheus.scm			\
+  gnu/packages/ots.scm				\
   gnu/packages/package-management.scm		\
   gnu/packages/parallel.scm			\
   gnu/packages/patchutils.scm			\
@@ -363,6 +364,7 @@ dist_patch_DATA =						\
   gnu/packages/patches/module-init-tools-moduledir.patch	\
   gnu/packages/patches/nvi-assume-preserve-path.patch           \
   gnu/packages/patches/orpheus-cast-errors-and-includes.patch	\
+  gnu/packages/patches/ots-no-include-missing-file.patch	\
   gnu/packages/patches/patchelf-page-size.patch			\
   gnu/packages/patches/patchutils-xfail-gendiff-tests.patch	\
   gnu/packages/patches/perl-no-sys-dirs.patch			\
diff --git a/gnu/packages/ots.scm b/gnu/packages/ots.scm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cd2bf8585b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/ots.scm
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
+;;; Copyright © 2014 Marek Benc <merkur32@gmail.com>
+;;;
+;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+;;; your option) any later version.
+;;;
+;;; GNU Guix is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+;;; GNU General Public License for more details.
+;;;
+;;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;;; along with GNU Guix.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+(define-module (gnu packages ots)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages glib)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages popt)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages xml)
+  #:use-module (guix packages)
+  #:use-module (guix download)
+  #:use-module (guix build-system gnu)
+  #:use-module ((guix licenses)
+                #:renamer (symbol-prefix-proc 'license:)))
+
+(define-public ots
+  (package
+    (name "ots")
+    (version "0.5.0")
+    (source
+     (origin
+       (method url-fetch)
+       (uri (string-append "mirror://sourceforge/libots/libots/"
+                           name "-" version "/" name "-" version
+                           ".tar.gz"))
+       (sha256
+        (base32 "0dz1ccd7ymzk4swz1aly4im0k3pascnshmgg1whd2rk14li8v47a"))
+       (patches
+        (list (search-patch "ots-no-include-missing-file.patch")))))
+
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (inputs
+      `(("glib" ,glib)
+        ("popt" ,popt)
+        ("libxml2" ,libxml2)
+        ("zlib" ,zlib)))
+    (native-inputs
+      `(("glib:bin" ,glib "bin")
+        ("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)))
+    (synopsis "Tool for summarizing texts")
+    (description
+      "The Open Text Summarizer is a library and command-line tool for
+summarizing texts.  The program reads a text and decides which sentences are
+important and which are not.  OTS will create a short summary or will
+highlight the main ideas in the text.
+
+The program can either print the summarized text as plain text or HTML.  If in
+HTML, the important sentences are highlighted.
+
+The program is multi lingual and works with UTF-8 encoding.")
+    (home-page "http://libots.sourceforge.net/")
+    (license license:gpl2+)))
diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/ots-no-include-missing-file.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/ots-no-include-missing-file.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c23c7c36a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnu/packages/patches/ots-no-include-missing-file.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+The file $(top_srcdir)/gtk-doc.make doesn't exist, so don't include it.
+
+--- a/doc/Makefile.in	2007-04-08 20:17:25.000000000 +0200
++++ b/doc/Makefile.in	2014-09-06 23:19:41.413397662 +0200
+@@ -240,9 +240,6 @@
+ distclean-generic clean-generic maintainer-clean-generic clean \
+ mostlyclean distclean maintainer-clean
+ 
+-
+-include $(top_srcdir)/gtk-doc.make
+-
+ # Tell versions [3.59,3.63) of GNU make to not export all variables.
+ # Otherwise a system limit (for SysV at least) may be exceeded.
+ .NOEXPORT: