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Vision Tool

This tool is used to extract text from images. When passed to the agent it will extract the text from the image and then use it to generate a response, report or any other output. The URL or the PATH of the image should be passed to the Agent.

Install the crewai_tools package

Terminal window
pip install 'crewai[tools]'

In order to use the VisionTool, the OpenAI API key should be set in the environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY.

from crewai_tools import VisionTool
vision_tool = VisionTool()
@agent
def researcher(self) -> Agent:
'''
This agent uses the VisionTool to extract text from images.
'''
return Agent(
config=self.agents_config["researcher"],
allow_delegation=False,
tools=[vision_tool]
)

The VisionTool requires the following arguments:

ArgumentTypeDescription
image_path_urlstringMandatory. The path to the image file from which text needs to be extracted.