Building on OSX: You'll need QT5 and poppler with QT5 bindings. QT5 can be installed with Homebrew: $ brew install qt5 whereas poppler should be built from source to get the QT5 bindings. To compile, clang needs to have C++11 features enabled. I built using: $ CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11" ./configure $ CXXFLAGS="-std=c++11" make