Vision Tool

The VisionTool is designed to extract text from images.

VisionTool

Description

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.

Installation

Install the crewai_tools package

pip install 'crewai[tools]'

Usage

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

Code

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]
    )

Arguments

The VisionTool requires the following arguments:

Argument	Type	Description
image_path_url	string	Mandatory. The path to the image file from which text needs to be extracted.