ocr

An image-to-text tool that uses an AI vision model to read words and characters from image files. OCR, or optical character recognition, means turning text in a picture into usable text.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract text from JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, or WebP files. It prints the recognized text to the command line.
Why use it?
It removes the need to retype text from photos, screenshots, and other images. It can be used from the command line with the bundled script, when the required access settings are available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jin-bo/agentao/ocr
Any agent
npx skills add jin-bo/agentao --skill ocr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jin-bo/agentao

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 524 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00099 $0.00524
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00052

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9281ecdfb305, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ocr scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/ocr.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

examples/skills/ocr/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

OCR Skill

Extract text from images using scripts/ocr.py (Qwen VL OCR model).

Path note: this skill's files live in the directory containing this SKILL.md — written as <skill-dir> below. It is shown on the Skill directory: line when the skill is activated (the activation message also lists the script's absolute path). The script is at <skill-dir>/scripts/ocr.py, NOT in your current working directory.

Prerequisites

QWEN_API_KEY and QWEN_BASE_URL, read in this order (first found wins):

  1. process environment variables
  2. .env in your current working directory
  3. <skill-dir>/.env (recommended place to keep them)
  4. ~/.env (user-wide fallback)
QWEN_API_KEY=your_key
QWEN_BASE_URL=https://your-base-url

No dependency setup needed: the script carries inline metadata (PEP 723), so uv run resolves openai / python-dotenv automatically in any directory. Do NOT run uv add — your cwd is usually not a Python project.

Usage

uv run "<skill-dir>/scripts/ocr.py" <image_file>

Substitute <skill-dir> with the absolute skill directory before running — it is NOT a shell variable. Output is printed to stdout. If credentials are missing, the script exits with an error telling you where to put them.

Workflow

  1. Confirm the image file path with the user if not provided
  2. Run the script with the image path
  3. Present the extracted text to the user
  4. If the user wants to save the output, write it to a .txt file

Notes

  • Blurry or overexposed single characters are replaced with ?
  • Supported formats: .jpg .jpeg .png .gif .webp
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 55 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 9281ecdfb305

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ocr is a skill published in the GitHub repository jin-bo/agentao (95 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 524 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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