transcribing-images SKILL.md skillA
transcribing-images from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/transcribing-images@v0.2.1Pins v0.2.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
transcribing-images/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v0.2.1, committed Oct 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 19, 2026
- Size
- 5,270 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
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…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# 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. ## The pipeline Everything routes through `scripts/transcribe_pages.py`, which handles all three ingress paths and one bad page never aborts the rest: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/transcribing-images@sha256:311962acc84a18f2The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.2.1, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_sqskkg3ln7skr3sk)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 19, 2026 and Oct 11, 2026, about one every 29 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.2.1 latest | 2026-10-11 | 14e3756 | 5,270 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.0 | 2026-10-07 | d854510 | 5,270 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.2 | 2026-09-12 | fd19617 | 5,161 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.1 | 2026-09-09 | db4e3e1 | 4,819 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-06-19 | 39dc2d2 | 4,677 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5270 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sqskkg3ln7skr3sk GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/transcribing-images GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/311962acc84a18f27bb5105a8552bdd4f279ad83ad62f0ff41c72f180bd09d2b
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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