from flask import Flask, redirect, url_for,render_template import hashlib app = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/') def md5_hash(): im_path = "/home/ammadamir/myproject/image.png" with open(im_path, "rb") as f: im_bytes = f.read() im_hash = str(hashlib.md5(im_bytes).hexdigest()) return 'Hash of your image is: ' + im_hash