diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 8de31e0e..61147e86 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Version counting is based on semantic versioning (Major.Feature.Patch)
 
 ### All apps
 * Run logger in a dedicated thread to avoid segfaults at application shutdown
+* Add support for poppler-qt6 pdf backend
 
 ## 9.10
 
diff --git a/YACReaderLibrary/initial_comic_info_extractor.cpp b/YACReaderLibrary/initial_comic_info_extractor.cpp
index d25d84c4..63ee6a5b 100644
--- a/YACReaderLibrary/initial_comic_info_extractor.cpp
+++ b/YACReaderLibrary/initial_comic_info_extractor.cpp
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ void InitialComicInfoExtractor::extract()
 #ifndef NO_PDF
     if (fi.suffix().compare("pdf", Qt::CaseInsensitive) == 0) {
 #if defined Q_OS_MAC && defined USE_PDFKIT
-       auto pdfComic = std::make_unique<MacOSXPDFComic>();
+        auto pdfComic = std::make_unique<MacOSXPDFComic>();
         if (!pdfComic->openComic(_fileSource)) {
             return;
         }
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ void InitialComicInfoExtractor::extract()
                 saveCover(_target, p);
             } else if (_target != "") {
                 QLOG_WARN() << "Extracting cover: requested cover index greater than numPages " << _fileSource;
-
             }
         }
         return;
diff --git a/common/comic.cpp b/common/comic.cpp
index 26b3949e..059c6203 100644
--- a/common/comic.cpp
+++ b/common/comic.cpp
@@ -808,8 +808,13 @@ void PDFComic::process()
         return;
     }
 #else
+
+#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK(6, 0, 0)
+    pdfComic = Poppler::Document::load(_path);
+#else
     auto _pdfComic = Poppler::Document::load(_path);
     pdfComic = std::unique_ptr<Poppler::Document>(_pdfComic);
+#endif
 
     if (!pdfComic) {
         moveToThread(QCoreApplication::instance()->thread());
@@ -877,7 +882,7 @@ void PDFComic::renderPage(int page)
     QImage img = pdfComic->getPage(page);
     if (!img.isNull()) {
 #else
-    std::unique_ptr<Poppler::Page> pdfpage (pdfComic->page(page));
+    std::unique_ptr<Poppler::Page> pdfpage(pdfComic->page(page));
     if (pdfpage) {
         QImage img = pdfpage->renderToImage(150, 150);
 #endif
diff --git a/common/comic.h b/common/comic.h
index 9be08d43..ae753a4c 100644
--- a/common/comic.h
+++ b/common/comic.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 #include "pdf_comic.h"
 #endif // NO_PDF
 class ComicDB;
-//#define EXTENSIONS << "*.jpg" << "*.jpeg" << "*.png" << "*.gif" << "*.tiff" << "*.tif" << "*.bmp" Comic::getSupportedImageFormats()
+
 //#define EXTENSIONS_LITERAL << ".jpg" << ".jpeg" << ".png" << ".gif" << ".tiff" << ".tif" << ".bmp" //Comic::getSupportedImageLiteralFormats()
 class Comic : public QObject
 {
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ private:
     std::unique_ptr<Poppler::Document> pdfComic;
 #endif
     void renderPage(int page);
+
     // void run();
 
 public:
diff --git a/common/pdf_comic.h b/common/pdf_comic.h
index 13febf5c..f2d8ff8c 100644
--- a/common/pdf_comic.h
+++ b/common/pdf_comic.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <QImage>
 #include <QFile>
 #include <QMutex>
+#include <QtGlobal>
 
 #if defined Q_OS_MAC && defined USE_PDFKIT
 class MacOSXPDFComic
@@ -45,6 +46,10 @@ private:
     QFile pdfFile;
 };
 #else
+#if QT_VERSION >= QT_VERSION_CHECK(6, 0, 0)
+#include <poppler-qt6.h>
+#else
 #include "poppler-qt5.h"
+#endif // QT_VERSION
 #endif // Q_OS_MAC
 #endif // PDF_COMIC_H
diff --git a/dependencies/pdf_backend.pri b/dependencies/pdf_backend.pri
index a14885bb..0905ede6 100644
--- a/dependencies/pdf_backend.pri
+++ b/dependencies/pdf_backend.pri
@@ -55,18 +55,31 @@ CONFIG(poppler) {
     LIBS += -L$$PWD/poppler/dependencies/bin
   }
   if(unix|mingw):!macx {
-    !contains(QT_CONFIG, no-pkg-config):packagesExist(poppler-qt5) {
-      message("Using system provided installation of poppler-qt5 found by pkg-config.")
-      CONFIG += link_pkgconfig
-      PKGCONFIG += poppler-qt5
-    } else:!macx:exists(/usr/include/poppler/qt5) {
-      message("Using system provided installation of poppler-qt5.")
-      INCLUDEPATH  += /usr/include/poppler/qt5
-      LIBS += -lpoppler-qt5
+    greaterThan (QT_MAJOR_VERSION, 5) {
+      !contains(QT_CONFIG, no-pkg-config):packagesExist(poppler-qt6) {
+        message("Using system provided installation of poppler-qt6 found by pkg-config.")
+        CONFIG += link_pkgconfig
+        PKGCONFIG += poppler-qt6
+      } else:!macx:exists(/usr/include/poppler/qt6) {
+        message("Using system provided installation of poppler-qt6.")
+        INCLUDEPATH  += /usr/include/poppler/qt6
+        LIBS += -lpoppler-qt6
+      } else {
+        error("Could not find poppler-qt6")
+      }
     } else {
-      error("Could not find poppler-qt5")
+      !contains(QT_CONFIG, no-pkg-config):packagesExist(poppler-qt5) {
+        message("Using system provided installation of poppler-qt5 found by pkg-config.")
+        CONFIG += link_pkgconfig
+        PKGCONFIG += poppler-qt5
+      } else:!macx:exists(/usr/include/poppler/qt5) {
+        message("Using system provided installation of poppler-qt5.")
+        INCLUDEPATH  += /usr/include/poppler/qt5
+        LIBS += -lpoppler-qt5
+      } else {
+        error("Could not find poppler-qt5")
+      }
     }
-
   }
   unix:macx {
     error (Poppler backend is currently not supported on macOS)