diff --git a/scripts/ubireader_extract_images b/scripts/ubireader_extract_images
index 9e7400f..e8ff9e9 100755
--- a/scripts/ubireader_extract_images
+++ b/scripts/ubireader_extract_images
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ if __name__=='__main__':
     parser.add_argument('-f', '--u-boot-fix', action='store_true', dest='uboot_fix',
                       help='Assume blocks with image_seq 0 are because of older U-boot implementations and include them. (default: False)')
 
+    parser.add_argument('--no-basename-subdir', action='store_true', dest='no_basename_subdir',
+                    help='Extract image within output-dir rather than in output-dir/basename(filepath). (default: False)')
+
     parser.add_argument('-o', '--output-dir', dest='outpath',
                         help='Specify output directory path.')
 
@@ -117,7 +120,8 @@ if __name__=='__main__':
     if filetype != UBI_EC_HDR_MAGIC:
         parser.error('File does not look like UBI data.')
 
-    img_name = os.path.basename(path)
+    img_name = "" if args.no_basename_subdir else os.path.basename(path)
+
     if args.outpath:
         outpath = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(args.outpath, img_name))
     else: