diff --git a/pkgs/applications/misc/tabula/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/misc/tabula/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index c4b7749b5304..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/applications/misc/tabula/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchzip, jre, makeWrapper }:
-
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  pname = "tabula";
-  version = "1.2.1";
-
-
-  src = fetchzip {
-    url = "https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula/releases/download/v${version}/tabula-jar-${version}.zip";
-    sha256 = "0lkpv8hkji81fanyxm7ph8421fr9a6phqc3pbhw2bc4gljg7sgxi";
-  };
-
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
-
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    mkdir -pv $out/share/tabula
-    cp -v * $out/share/tabula
-
-    makeWrapper ${jre}/bin/java $out/bin/tabula --add-flags "-jar $out/share/tabula/tabula.jar"
-  '';
-
-
-  meta = with lib; {
-    description = "Tool for liberating data tables locked inside PDF files";
-    longDescription = ''
-      If you’ve ever tried to do anything with data provided to you in PDFs, you
-      know how painful it is — there's no easy way to copy-and-paste rows of data
-      out of PDF files. Tabula allows you to extract that data into a CSV or
-      Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface.
-    '';
-    homepage = "https://tabula.technology/";
-    sourceProvenance = with sourceTypes; [ binaryBytecode ];
-    license = licenses.mit;
-    maintainers = [ maintainers.dpaetzel ];
-    platforms = platforms.all;
-    broken = true; # on 2022-11-23 this package builds, but produces an executable that fails immediately
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index c531a2a06b4c..fd5f820ea5b8 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1341,6 +1341,7 @@ mapAliases ({
 
   ### T ###
 
+  tabula = throw "tabula has been removed from nixpkgs, as it was broken"; # Added 2024-07-15
   tangogps = foxtrotgps; # Added 2020-01-26
   taplo-cli = taplo; # Added 2022-07-30
   taplo-lsp = taplo; # Added 2022-07-30
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 9450e906fa82..9d59a6ec066d 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -34260,8 +34260,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   taskjuggler = callPackage ../applications/misc/taskjuggler { };
 
-  tabula = callPackage ../applications/misc/tabula { };
-
   tabula-java = callPackage ../applications/misc/tabula-java { };
 
   tasknc = callPackage ../applications/misc/tasknc { };