diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d50c92b954..f6a054702a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ OCV_OPTION(CV_DISABLE_OPTIMIZATION    "Disable explicit optimized code (dispatch
 OCV_OPTION(CV_TRACE                   "Enable OpenCV code trace" ON)
 
 OCV_OPTION(ENABLE_PYLINT              "Add target with Pylint checks"                            (${BUILD_DOCS} OR ${BUILD_EXAMPLES}) IF (NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING AND NOT APPLE_FRAMEWORK) )
+OCV_OPTION(ENABLE_FLAKE8              "Add target with Python flake8 checker"                    (${BUILD_DOCS} OR ${BUILD_EXAMPLES}) IF (NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING AND NOT APPLE_FRAMEWORK) )
 
 if(ENABLE_IMPL_COLLECTION)
   add_definitions(-DCV_COLLECT_IMPL_DATA)
@@ -645,9 +646,22 @@ if(BUILD_JAVA)
   endif()
 endif()
 
-if(ENABLE_PYLINT)
+if(ENABLE_PYLINT AND PYTHON_DEFAULT_AVAILABLE)
   include(cmake/OpenCVPylint.cmake)
 endif()
+if(ENABLE_FLAKE8 AND PYTHON_DEFAULT_AVAILABLE)
+  find_package(Flake8 QUIET)
+  if(NOT FLAKE8_FOUND OR NOT FLAKE8_EXECUTABLE)
+    include("${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/cmake/FindFlake8.cmake")
+  endif()
+  if(FLAKE8_FOUND)
+    add_custom_target(check_flake8
+        COMMAND "${FLAKE8_EXECUTABLE}" . --count --select=E9,E901,E999,F821,F822,F823 --show-source --statistics --exclude='.git,__pycache__,*.config.py,svgfig.py'
+        WORKING_DIRECTORY "${OpenCV_SOURCE_DIR}"
+        COMMENT "Running flake8"
+    )
+  endif()
+endif()
 
 
 if(ANDROID AND ANDROID_EXECUTABLE AND ANT_EXECUTABLE AND (ANT_VERSION VERSION_GREATER 1.7) AND (ANDROID_TOOLS_Pkg_Revision GREATER 13))
@@ -1449,6 +1463,9 @@ status("  Python (for build):"  PYTHON_DEFAULT_AVAILABLE THEN "${PYTHON_DEFAULT_
 if(PYLINT_FOUND AND PYLINT_EXECUTABLE)
   status("    Pylint:"  PYLINT_FOUND THEN "${PYLINT_EXECUTABLE} (ver: ${PYLINT_VERSION}, checks: ${PYLINT_TOTAL_TARGETS})" ELSE NO)
 endif()
+if(FLAKE8_FOUND AND FLAKE8_EXECUTABLE)
+  status("    Flake8:"  FLAKE8_FOUND THEN "${FLAKE8_EXECUTABLE} (ver: ${FLAKE8_VERSION})" ELSE NO)
+endif()
 
 # ========================== java ==========================
 if(BUILD_JAVA OR BUILD_opencv_java)
diff --git a/cmake/FindFlake8.cmake b/cmake/FindFlake8.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b18225a011
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/FindFlake8.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# - Find Flake8
+# Find the Flake8 executable and extract the version number
+#
+# OUTPUT Variables
+#
+#   FLAKE8_FOUND
+#       True if the flake8 package was found
+#   FLAKE8_EXECUTABLE
+#       The flake8 executable location
+#   FLAKE8_VERSION
+#       A string denoting the version of flake8 that has been found
+
+find_host_program(FLAKE8_EXECUTABLE flake8 PATHS /usr/bin)
+
+if(FLAKE8_EXECUTABLE)
+  execute_process(COMMAND ${FLAKE8_EXECUTABLE} --version OUTPUT_VARIABLE FLAKE8_VERSION_RAW ERROR_QUIET)
+  if(FLAKE8_VERSION_RAW MATCHES "^([0-9\\.]+[0-9])")
+    set(FLAKE8_VERSION "${CMAKE_MATCH_1}")
+  else()
+    set(FLAKE8_VERSION "unknown")
+  endif()
+endif()
+
+include(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
+FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS(Flake8 DEFAULT_MSG FLAKE8_EXECUTABLE)
+
+mark_as_advanced(FLAKE8_EXECUTABLE FLAKE8_VERSION)