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title: Vision Tool
description: The `VisionTool` is designed to extract text from images.
icon: eye
mode: "wide"
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# `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

```shell
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`.

```python 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. |
