diff -ur a/pdf-parser.py b/pdf-parser.py
--- a/pdf-parser.py	2019-03-18 11:04:30.022785000 +0300
+++ b/pdf-parser.py	2019-03-18 11:21:14.135237324 +0300
@@ -857,11 +857,11 @@
         if options.hash:
             streamContent = object.Stream(False, options.overridingfilters)
             print('  unfiltered')
-            print('   len: %6d md5: %s' % (len(streamContent), hashlib.md5(streamContent).hexdigest()))
+            print('   len: %6d md5: %s' % (len(streamContent), hashlib.md5(streamContent.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()))
             print('   %s' % HexAsciiDumpLine(streamContent))
             streamContent = object.Stream(True, options.overridingfilters)
             print('  filtered')
-            print('   len: %6d md5: %s' % (len(streamContent), hashlib.md5(streamContent).hexdigest()))
+            print('   len: %6d md5: %s' % (len(streamContent), hashlib.md5(streamContent.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()))
             print('   %s' % HexAsciiDumpLine(streamContent))
             streamContent = None
     else:
@@ -1516,7 +1516,7 @@
                         elif options.hash:
                             print('obj %d %d' % (object.id, object.version))
                             rawContent = FormatOutput(object.content, True)
-                            print(' len: %d md5: %s' % (len(rawContent), hashlib.md5(rawContent).hexdigest()))
+                            print(' len: %d md5: %s' % (len(rawContent), hashlib.md5(rawContent.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()))
                             print('')
                         elif options.searchstream:
                             if object.StreamContains(options.searchstream, not options.unfiltered, options.casesensitive, options.regex, options.overridingfilters):