read_image

MCP tool from Go Docs MCP by drolosoft

Extracts text from an image file using OCR. Supports PNG, JPG, and TIFF. Requires tesseract.

How to use it

read_image is exposed by the Go Docs MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the read_image tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Go Docs MCP

$go install github.com/drolosoft/go-docs-mcp@latest

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Other tools in Go Docs MCP (18)

extract_images

Extracts images from a document as base64-encoded data. Returns up to 10 images per call.

extract_tables

Extracts tables from a document as structured data.

filename

string

get_document_metadata

Returns full document metadata.

get_document_outline

Extracts the document outline (table of contents / bookmarks) as a structured list.

get_document_summary

Returns the text from the first 3 pages of a document as a quick summary.

language

string

list_documents

Lists all documents in the configured directory with format detection.

list_formats

Lists all supported document formats and their dependency status.

Multi-format

PDF, TXT, MD, CSV, DOCX, and images from one server

ocr_document

Forces OCR on a PDF document using tesseract. Useful for scanned/image-based PDFs or when pdftotext returns garbled text. Requires tesseract and pdftoppm.

number

string

string

Reads the extracted text content of a document. Automatically falls back to OCR if the document is image-based/scanned and pdftotext returns empty text.

read_url

Downloads a document from a URL and extracts its text content. Maximum file size: 50MB.

search_document

Searches within a document for lines matching a query. Returns matches with 2 lines of context and approximate page numbers.

url

string