diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c4ddd6d3..57f03cbf 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -95,3 +95,6 @@ src/zvbi/.dirstamp
 
 # Arch
 package_creators/*.pkg.tar.xz
+
+#RPMs
+package_creators/*.rpm
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6c2a18fc..755b478a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -98,6 +98,16 @@ More usage information can be found on our website:
     # building installation package (.pkg.tar.xz) or installing directly
     cd ccextractor/package_creators
     ./arch.sh
+    
+### Redhat Package Manager (rpm) based Linux Distributions
+    # make sure you have CCExtractor repository forked
+    # clone repository
+    # install git via source
+    git clone https://github.com/%USERNAME%/ccextractor.git # paste your github username
+
+    # building installation package (.rpm)
+    cd ccextractor/package_creators
+    ./rpm.sh
 
 ### Windows
 
diff --git a/docs/CHANGES.TXT b/docs/CHANGES.TXT
index 1ef7dfda..cc5ca4e6 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGES.TXT
+++ b/docs/CHANGES.TXT
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 -----------------
 - Fix: Prevent the OCR being initialized more than once (happened on multiprogram and
   PAT changes)
+- New: Added .rpm package generation script.
 - New: Added build/installation script for .pkg.tar.xz (Arch Linux).
+- New: Added tarball generation script.
+- New: Added Autoconf build scripts for CCExtractor to generate makefiles.
   
 
 0.85b (2017-1-26)
diff --git a/package_creators/ccextractor.spec b/package_creators/ccextractor.spec
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8fbc3e81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package_creators/ccextractor.spec
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+Name: ccextractor
+Version: 0.85
+Release: 1
+Summary: A closed captions and teletext subtitles extractor for video streams.
+Group: Applications/Internet
+License: GPL
+URL: http://ccextractor.org/
+Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
+
+%description
+CCExtractor is a software that extracts closed captions from videos of various formats, even live video streams. Available as a multi-platform desktop application.
+
+%global debug_package %{nil}
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+./configure --enable-ocr --prefix="$pkgdir/usr/local"
+make
+
+%install
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/bin
+install ccextractor $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/local/bin/ccextractor
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+/usr/local/bin/ccextractor
+
+%clean
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+
+%changelog
+* Fri Apr 14 2017 Carlos Fernandez <carlos@ccextractor.org>
+- Initial build
diff --git a/package_creators/rpm.sh b/package_creators/rpm.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..5f71309f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package_creators/rpm.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [[ $(rpmbuild 2>&1) == *"not found"* ]]
+then
+    echo "ERROR: 'rpmbuild' package not found. Please install it and try again."
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+workdir=`pwd`
+echo "%_topdir $workdir/RPMBUILD" >> $HOME/.rpmmacros
+./tarball.sh
+retval=$?
+if [ $retval -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Sorry, the package could not be created as the tarball building process failed with return code $retval"
+    rm -f ./*.tar.gz
+    exit $retval
+fi
+mkdir -p RPMBUILD/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
+mv *.tar.gz RPMBUILD/SOURCES/
+cp ccextractor.spec RPMBUILD/SPECS
+cd RPMBUILD/SPECS
+rpmbuild -ba ccextractor.spec
+retval=$?
+if [ $retval -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Sorry, the package could not be created as rpmbuild failed with return code $retval"
+    exit $retval
+fi
+cd ../..
+cp RPMBUILD/RPMS/x86_64/*.rpm .
+rm -rf RPMBUILD