diff --git a/projects/gdal/Dockerfile b/projects/gdal/Dockerfile
index bd687fd15..be3294a92 100644
--- a/projects/gdal/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/gdal/Dockerfile
@@ -18,14 +18,15 @@ FROM gcr.io/oss-fuzz-base/base-builder
 MAINTAINER even.rouault@spatialys.com
 RUN dpkg --add-architecture i386 && \
     apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y make autoconf automake libtool g++ curl cmake sqlite3
+    apt-get install -y make autoconf automake libtool g++ curl cmake sqlite3 pkg-config
+
 RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal gdal
 
 RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OSGeo/proj.4 gdal/proj
 
 RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curl/curl.git gdal/curl
 
-COPY build.sh NC4_put_propattr_leak_fix.patch libnetcdf_fix_undefined_left_shift_in_ncx_get_size_t.patch $SRC/
+COPY NC4_put_propattr_leak_fix.patch libnetcdf_fix_undefined_left_shift_in_ncx_get_size_t.patch $SRC/
 
 RUN curl ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-4.4.1.1.tar.gz > gdal/netcdf-4.4.1.1.tar.gz && \
     cd gdal && \
@@ -36,5 +37,9 @@ RUN curl ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-4.4.1.1.tar.gz > gdal/netc
     patch -p0 < $SRC/libnetcdf_fix_undefined_left_shift_in_ncx_get_size_t.patch && \
     cd ../..
 
+RUN git clone --depth 1 https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler.git gdal/poppler
+
+COPY build.sh $SRC/
+
 WORKDIR gdal
 
diff --git a/projects/gdal/build.sh b/projects/gdal/build.sh
index 714543872..2c085fd21 100755
--- a/projects/gdal/build.sh
+++ b/projects/gdal/build.sh
@@ -18,18 +18,46 @@
 I386_PACKAGES="zlib1g-dev:i386 libexpat-dev:i386 liblzma-dev:i386 \
               libxerces-c-dev:i386 libpng12-dev:i386 libgif-dev:i386 \
               libwebp-dev:i386 libicu-dev:i386 libnetcdf-dev:i386 \
-              libssl-dev:i386 libsqlite3-dev:i386"
+              libssl-dev:i386 libsqlite3-dev:i386 \
+              libfreetype6-dev:i386 libfontconfig1-dev:i386"
 X64_PACKAGES="zlib1g-dev libexpat-dev liblzma-dev \
               libxerces-c-dev libpng12-dev libgif-dev \
               libwebp-dev libicu-dev libnetcdf-dev \
-              libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev"
+              libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev \
+              libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev"
 
 if [ "$ARCHITECTURE" = "i386" ]; then
-    apt-get install -y $I386_PACKAGES automake libtool autoconf
+    apt-get install -y $I386_PACKAGES
 else
     apt-get install -y $X64_PACKAGES
 fi
 
+# build poppler
+cd poppler
+mkdir -p build
+cd build
+cmake .. \
+  -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$SRC/install \
+  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debug \
+  -DENABLE_UNSTABLE_API_ABI_HEADERS=ON \
+  -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF \
+  -DFONT_CONFIGURATION=generic \
+  -DENABLE_CPP=OFF \
+  -DENABLE_LIBOPENJPEG=none \
+  -DENABLE_CMS=none \
+  -DENABLE_LIBPNG=OFF \
+  -DENABLE_LIBTIFF=OFF \
+  -DENABLE_GLIB=OFF \
+  -DENABLE_LIBCURL=OFF \
+  -DENABLE_QT5=OFF \
+  -DENABLE_UTILS=OFF \
+  -DWITH_Cairo=OFF \
+  -DWITH_NSS3=OFF
+
+make clean -s
+make -j$(nproc) -s
+make install
+cd ../..
 
 # build libproj.a (proj master required)
 cd proj
@@ -62,7 +90,7 @@ cd ../..
 # build gdal
 cd gdal
 export LDFLAGS=${CXXFLAGS}
-./configure --without-libtool --with-liblzma --with-expat --with-sqlite3 --with-xerces --with-webp --with-netcdf=$SRC/install --with-curl=$SRC/install/bin/curl-config --without-hdf5 --with-jpeg=internal --with-proj=$SRC/install
+PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$SRC/install/lib/pkgconfig ./configure --without-libtool --with-liblzma --with-expat --with-sqlite3 --with-xerces --with-webp --with-netcdf=$SRC/install --with-curl=$SRC/install/bin/curl-config --without-hdf5 --with-jpeg=internal --with-proj=$SRC/install --with-poppler
 make clean -s
 make -j$(nproc) -s static-lib
 
@@ -73,6 +101,8 @@ export EXTRA_LIBS="$EXTRA_LIBS -lxerces-c -licuuc -licudata"
 export EXTRA_LIBS="$EXTRA_LIBS -L$SRC/install/lib -lnetcdf -lhdf5_serial_hl -lhdf5_serial -lsz -laec -lz"
 # curl related
 export EXTRA_LIBS="$EXTRA_LIBS -L$SRC/install/lib -lcurl -lssl -lcrypto -lz"
+# poppler related
+export EXTRA_LIBS="$EXTRA_LIBS -L$SRC/install/lib -lpoppler -lfreetype -lfontconfig"
 export EXTRA_LIBS="$EXTRA_LIBS -Wl,-Bdynamic -ldl -lpthread"
 ./fuzzers/build_google_oss_fuzzers.sh
 ./fuzzers/build_seed_corpus.sh