Transcribing Images

Read what a slide, page, or image actually shows — text plus charts, diagrams, screenshots, and layout — by rasterizing it and sending the picture to a vision model. This is the fix for the gap the built-in pptx and pdf skills leave: they extract embedded text only, so an image slide, a chart, or a scanned figure reads as empty. Visual transcription reads it the way a person looking at the slide would.

When to reach for this vs. the built-in skills

Use the pptx / pdf skills first for text-native documents — a normal deck or report where the content is real text boxes. They are faster and exact.

Switch to this skill when text extraction comes back thin or empty on a file you can see is visually rich, or whenever the meaningful content is a picture: chart, graph, diagram, screenshot, photo, scanned page, or a slide exported as one flat image. Don't guess which case you're in — if pptx/pdf returned little from a file that clearly has content, that is the signal.