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