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transcribing-images

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By oaustegard/claude-skills (GitHub) · media · 158 stars · scanned at commit 487272b

Reads the visual content of slides, pages, and images the way a human would, not just their embedded text. Use when a PPTX or PDF has image slides, screenshots, charts, scanned figures, or flattened-to-image layouts that the built-in pptx/pdf skills read as empty; when asked to transcribe, describe, OCR, or extract what is shown in an image, slide deck, or document page; or when embedded-text extraction returned little or nothing from a visually rich file. Triggers on 'read this deck', 'what's …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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• plugins/media-processing/skills/transcribing-images 100/100 · Low risk

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'transcribing-images' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'transcribing-images' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named transcribing-images already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '487272b6d1d9a2c5248d9adfa2d7765f8ca2b6af' -- 'transcribing-images' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'transcribing-images' ~/.agents/skills/'transcribing-images' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'transcribing-images' ~/.claude/skills/'transcribing-images' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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