diff --git a/pkgs/tools/text/invoice2data/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/text/invoice2data/default.nix
index acb4e373e809..fd5ead9e0c35 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/text/invoice2data/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/text/invoice2data/default.nix
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 { lib
 , fetchFromGitHub
+, fetchpatch
 , ghostscript
 , imagemagick
 , poppler_utils
@@ -16,26 +17,29 @@ python3.pkgs.buildPythonApplication rec {
     owner = "invoice-x";
     repo = pname;
     rev = "v${version}";
-    sha256 = "sha256-ss2h8cg0sga+lzJyQHckrZB/Eb63Oj3FkqmGqWCzCQ8=";
+    hash = "sha256-ss2h8cg0sga+lzJyQHckrZB/Eb63Oj3FkqmGqWCzCQ8=";
   };
 
-  buildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [ setuptools-git ];
+  patches = [
+    # https://github.com/invoice-x/invoice2data/pull/522
+    (fetchpatch {
+      name = "clean-up-build-dependencies.patch";
+      url = "https://github.com/invoice-x/invoice2data/commit/ccea3857c7c8295ca51dc24de6cde78774ea7e64.patch";
+      hash = "sha256-BhqPW4hWG/EaR3qBv5a68dcvIMrCCT74GdDHr0Mss5Q=";
+    })
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
+    setuptools-git
+  ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = with python3.pkgs; [
-    chardet
     dateparser
     pdfminer-six
     pillow
     pyyaml
-    setuptools
-    unidecode
   ];
 
-  postPatch = ''
-    substituteInPlace setup.cfg \
-      --replace "pytest-runner" ""
-  '';
-
   makeWrapperArgs = ["--prefix" "PATH" ":" (lib.makeBinPath [
     ghostscript
     imagemagick