diff --git a/buildScripts/assembleAppImage b/buildScripts/assembleAppImage
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..e48c1fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildScripts/assembleAppImage
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This bash script automates the creation of an AppImage for pdf2htmlEX
+# It is based upon code taken from
+#   https://github.com/AppImage/pkg2appimage
+# and
+#   https://github.com/AppImage/AppImages
+
+mkdir -p buildAppImage
+
+cd buildAppImage
+
+wget -q https://github.com/AppImage/AppImages/raw/master/functions.sh \
+  -O ./functions.sh
+
+. ./functions.sh
+
+apt download -y apt libapt-pkg5.0 libbz2-1.0 liblzma5 \
+   multiarch-support zlib1g dpkg
+
+mkdir -p pdf2htmlEX.AppImage
+
diff --git a/buildScripts/buildPdf2htmlEX b/buildScripts/buildPdf2htmlEX
index 6dbef4e..ad47a2d 100755
--- a/buildScripts/buildPdf2htmlEX
+++ b/buildScripts/buildPdf2htmlEX
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # This bash script builds pdf2htmlEX
 
-cd pdf2html
+cd pdf2htmlEX
 mkdir build
 cd build
 cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..
diff --git a/buildScripts/pdf2htmlEX.desktop b/buildScripts/pdf2htmlEX.desktop
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81f4508
--- /dev/null
+++ b/buildScripts/pdf2htmlEX.desktop
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[Desktop Entry]
+Version=1.0
+Type=Application
+Name=pdf2htmlEX
+Comment=pdf2htmlEX
+Exec=/usr/local/bin/pdf2htmlEX
+Icon=/usr/local/share/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX-64x64
+Categories=Office;
+Terminal=false
+StartupNotify=false
+X-AppImage-Version=try1