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VisionTool

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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.

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Installation

Install the crewai_tools package

pip install 'crewai[tools]'

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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]
    )

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Arguments

The VisionTool requires the following arguments:

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