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# Aextract Text • AI Agent SDK

> aextract_text: Async version of extract_text().

# aextract\_text

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> This is a method of the [**VisionAgent**](../classes/VisionAgent) class in the [**vision\_agent**](../modules/vision_agent) module.

Async version of extract\_text().

## Signature

```python theme={"theme":{"light":"vitesse-light","dark":"vitesse-dark"}}
async def aextract_text(image: str) -> str
```

## Parameters

<ParamField query="image" type="str" required={true}>
  No description available.
</ParamField>

### Returns

<ResponseField name="Returns" type="str">
  The result of the operation.
</ResponseField>

## Uses

* `kwargs.setdefault`
* `aanalyze`

## Source

<Card title="View on GitHub" icon="github" href="https://github.com/MervinPraison/PraisonAI/blob/main/src/praisonai-agents/praisonaiagents/agent/vision_agent.py#L444">
  `praisonaiagents/agent/vision_agent.py` at line 444
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