Vision & OCR

Vision plugins give a text-only model a way to look. The strongest implementations do not just describe an image, they return structured evidence the model can reason over: extracted text with positions, layout regions, colour values, and crop coordinates it can request next.

Prefer plugins that treat images as ordinary tool calls instead of a special turn type, and check whether the vision backend is local, free, or requires your own key. For screenshot-heavy work, confirm that long images are tiled rather than downscaled into illegibility.