diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 1addfbf..6badff0 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -40,3 +40,6 @@
 [submodule "lib/libtiff"]
 	path = lib/libtiff
 	url = https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff
+[submodule "lib/libpng"]
+	path = lib/libpng
+	url = https://github.com/glennrp/libpng
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 944910e..6d9de56 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(
         ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/libtesseract.a
         ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/liblept.a
         ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/libtiff.a
-        png
+        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib/libpng16.a
         stdc++
 )
 
diff --git a/lib/libpng b/lib/libpng
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..301f7a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/libpng
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 301f7a14295a3bdfaf406dbb5004d0784dc137ea
diff --git a/scripts/get_static_libs.sh b/scripts/get_static_libs.sh
index 64bc3a2..4cd108f 100755
--- a/scripts/get_static_libs.sh
+++ b/scripts/get_static_libs.sh
@@ -97,4 +97,10 @@ cd libtiff
   --disable-lzma --disable-zstd --disable-jbig
 make -j $THREADS
 cd ..
-mv libtiff/libtiff/.libs/libtiff.a .
\ No newline at end of file
+mv libtiff/libtiff/.libs/libtiff.a .
+
+cd libpng
+./configure --enable-static --disable-shared
+make -j $THREADS
+cd ..
+mv libpng/.libs/libpng16.a .