diff --git a/graphics/unpaper/Makefile b/graphics/unpaper/Makefile
index 64b8c47cb9d4..90af57dc960b 100644
--- a/graphics/unpaper/Makefile
+++ b/graphics/unpaper/Makefile
@@ -1,26 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	unpaper
-PORTVERSION=	6.1
+DISTVERSION=	7.0.0
 CATEGORIES=	graphics
-MASTER_SITES=	https://www.flameeyes.eu/files/
+MASTER_SITES=	https://github.com/${PORTNAME}/${PORTNAME}/releases/download/${PORTNAME}-${DISTVERSION}/ \
+		https://www.flameeyes.eu/files/
 
 MAINTAINER=	kai@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Post-processing tool for scanned sheets of paper
 WWW=		https://www.flameeyes.eu/projects/unpaper
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
-LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/COPYING
+LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSES/GPL-2.0-only.txt
+
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sphinx>0:textproc/py-sphinx@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
-BUILD_DEPENDS=	xsltproc:textproc/libxslt \
-		bash:shells/bash
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libavcodec.so:multimedia/ffmpeg \
 		libavformat.so:multimedia/ffmpeg \
 		libavutil.so:multimedia/ffmpeg
 
-USES=		autoreconf pkgconfig tar:xz
-
-GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
+USES=		meson pkgconfig python:build tar:xz
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/${PORTNAME} \
 		man/man1/${PORTNAME}.1.gz
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/graphics/unpaper/distinfo b/graphics/unpaper/distinfo
index 16e5a9c01cd8..1c73c7691290 100644
--- a/graphics/unpaper/distinfo
+++ b/graphics/unpaper/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1565468288
-SHA256 (unpaper-6.1.tar.xz) = 237c84f5da544b3f7709827f9f12c37c346cdf029b1128fb4633f9bafa5cb930
-SIZE (unpaper-6.1.tar.xz) = 2655724
+TIMESTAMP = 1678808615
+SHA256 (unpaper-7.0.0.tar.xz) = 2575fbbf26c22719d1cb882b59602c9900c7f747118ac130883f63419be46a80
+SIZE (unpaper-7.0.0.tar.xz) = 4430572
diff --git a/graphics/unpaper/files/patch-file.c b/graphics/unpaper/files/patch-file.c
deleted file mode 100644
index aa8bbf6368fb..000000000000
--- a/graphics/unpaper/files/patch-file.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-Subject: Fix wrong ffmpeg API usage
-Origin: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=800312
-Bug: https://github.com/Flameeyes/unpaper/issues/39
-Author: Andreas Cadhalpun <andreas.cadhalpun@googlemail.com>
-Forwarded: https://github.com/Flameeyes/unpaper/pull/42
-
---- file.c.orig	2014-10-26 22:35:38 UTC
-+++ file.c
-@@ -93,10 +93,21 @@ void loadImage(const char *filename, AVFrame **image) 
-     if (pkt.stream_index != 0)
-         errOutput("unable to open file %s: invalid stream.", filename);
- 
-+    while (!got_frame && pkt.data) {
-+
-+        if (pkt.size <= 0) {
-+            pkt.data = NULL;
-+            pkt.size = 0;
-+        }
-+
-     ret = avcodec_decode_video2(avctx, frame, &got_frame, &pkt);
-     if (ret < 0) {
-         av_strerror(ret, errbuff, sizeof(errbuff));
-         errOutput("unable to open file %s: %s", filename, errbuff);
-+    }
-+
-+        pkt.data += ret;
-+        pkt.size -= ret;
-     }
- 
-     switch(frame->format) {