diff --git a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
index 0901dc429fc07d1ea05ab3086b59971c539a4a81..df0099c7df6ec692afb38d52b39556341a24fc25 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/image-processing.scm
@@ -35,13 +35,18 @@ (define-module (gnu packages image-processing)
   #:use-module (gnu packages compression)
   #:use-module (gnu packages documentation)
   #:use-module (gnu packages fontutils)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages ghostscript)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gl)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages glib)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gnome)
   #:use-module (gnu packages graphics)
   #:use-module (gnu packages graphviz)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages gstreamer)
   #:use-module (gnu packages gtk)
   #:use-module (gnu packages image)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages imagemagick)
   #:use-module (gnu packages maths)
+  #:use-module (gnu packages pdf)
   #:use-module (gnu packages perl)
   #:use-module (gnu packages photo)
   #:use-module (gnu packages pkg-config)
@@ -396,3 +401,45 @@ (define-public opencv
 @end itemize\n")
     (home-page "https://opencv.org/")
     (license license:bsd-3)))
+
+(define-public vips
+  (package
+    (name "vips")
+    (version "8.7.1")
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              (uri (string-append
+                    "https://github.com/libvips/libvips/releases/download/v"
+                    version "/vips-" version ".tar.gz"))
+              (sha256
+               (base32 "1w3b90pdw7nj2p0gb4f96h6zhmga513f968ldfhz1rkhg7y81c0s"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (native-inputs
+     `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config)
+       ("gobject-introspection" ,gobject-introspection)))
+    (inputs
+     `(("glib" ,glib)
+       ("libjpeg" ,libjpeg)
+       ("libpng" ,libpng)
+       ("librsvg" ,librsvg)
+       ("libtiff" ,libtiff)
+       ("libexif" ,libexif)
+       ("giflib" ,giflib)
+       ("libgsf" ,libgsf)
+       ("fftw" ,fftw)
+       ("poppler" ,poppler)
+       ("pango" ,pango)
+       ("lcms" ,lcms)
+       ("matio" ,matio)
+       ("libwebp" ,libwebp)
+       ("niftilib" ,niftilib)
+       ("openexr" ,openexr)
+       ("orc" ,orc)
+       ("imagemagick" ,imagemagick)
+       ("libxml2" ,libxml2)
+       ("expat" ,expat)
+       ("hdf5" ,hdf5)))
+    (home-page "https://libvips.github.io/libvips/")
+    (synopsis "A free image processing system")
+    (description "vips is a demand-driven, horizontally threaded image processing library")
+    (license license:lgpl2.1+)))