diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/olefile/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/olefile/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5cf51b841329
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/olefile/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+{ stdenv, buildPythonPackage, fetchPypi }:
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "olefile";
+  version = "0.44";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    extension = "zip";
+    sha256 = "1bbk1xplmrhymqpk6rkb15sg7v9qfih7zh23p6g2fxxas06cmwk1";
+  };
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Python package to parse, read and write Microsoft OLE2 files";
+    homepage = https://www.decalage.info/python/olefileio;
+    # BSD like + reference to Pillow
+    license = "http://olefile.readthedocs.io/en/latest/License.html";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index 09cced825141..dd41361916d2 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -16621,6 +16621,8 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  olefile = callPackage ../development/python-modules/olefile { };
+
   oslo-log = buildPythonPackage rec {
     name = "oslo.log-${version}";
     version = "1.12.1";