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Image Fields to extract
receipt.jpg vendor, total, date, items
business_card.jpg name, email, phone, company
invoice.pdf invoice_number, amount, due_date
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{"id": "chatcmpl-DCZGQMTD4imtZ6xI1Z6rwiebHO5Jd", "model": "gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18", "usage": {"total_tokens": 14327, "prompt_tokens": 14229, "completion_tokens": 98, "prompt_tokens_details": {"audio_tokens": 0, "cached_tokens": 0}, "completion_tokens_details": {"audio_tokens": 0, "reasoning_tokens": 0, "accepted_prediction_tokens": 0, "rejected_prediction_tokens": 0}}, "object": "chat.completion", "choices": [{"index": 0, "message": {"role": "assistant", "content": "{\n \"description\": \"A woman holding a pink umbrella and wearing a colorful swimsuit, smiling against a backdrop of a lake and blue sky.\",\n \"objec ...... \"sky\",\n \"trees\"\n ],\n \"dominant_colors\": [\n \"pink\",\n \"blue\",\n \"green\",\n \"white\",\n \"purple\"\n ],\n \"scene_type\": \"outdoor\"\n}", "refusal": null, "annotations": []}, "logprobs": null, "finish_reason": "stop"}], "created": 1771887862, "service_tier": "default", "system_fingerprint": "fp_373a14eb6f"} { "description": "A woman holding a pink umbrella and wearing a colorful swimsuit, smiling against a backdrop of a lake and blue sky.", "objects": [ "umbrella", "swimsuit", "water", "sky", "trees" ], "dominant_colors": [ "pink", "blue", "green", "white", "purple" ], "scene_type": "outdoor" }
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image description
A woman holding a pink umbrella and wearing a colorful swimsuit, smiling against a backdrop of a lake and blue sky.
A serene landscape featuring a cow grazing in a green field with a tree and distant buildings under a partly cloudy sky.
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Use Case Fields to extract
Receipts vendor, total, date, items, tax
Business cards name, title, company, email, phone
Product photos brand, model, condition, defects
Documents title, date, author, summary
`]; Use AI vision to extract JSON data from receipts, forms, documents, and other images. ## Problem You have images containing structured information (receipts, forms, ID cards) and need to extract specific fields as JSON for downstream processing.
## Solution **What’s in this recipe:** * Extract structured JSON from images using GPT-4o * Use `openai.vision()` which handles images directly * Access individual fields from the extracted data You use Pixeltable’s `openai.vision()` function which automatically handles image encoding. Request JSON output via `response_format` in `model_kwargs`. ### Setup ```python theme={null} %pip install -qU pixeltable openai import getpass import os if 'OPENAI_API_KEY' not in os.environ: os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY'] = getpass.getpass('OpenAI API Key: ') ``` ```python theme={null} import pixeltable as pxt from pixeltable.functions import openai ``` ### Load images ```python theme={null} # Create a fresh directory pxt.drop_dir('extraction_demo', force=True) pxt.create_dir('extraction_demo') ``` 
  Connected to Pixeltable database at: postgresql+psycopg://postgres:@/pixeltable?host=/Users/asiegel/.pixeltable/pgdata
  Created directory 'extraction\_demo'.
  \
```python theme={null} t = pxt.create_table('extraction_demo/images', {'image': pxt.Image}) ``` 
  Created table 'images'.
```python theme={null} # Insert sample images t.insert( [ { 'image': 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/main/docs/resources/images/000000000036.jpg' }, { 'image': 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pixeltable/pixeltable/main/docs/resources/images/000000000090.jpg' }, ] ) ``` 
  Inserted 2 rows with 0 errors in 0.03 s (60.43 rows/s)
  2 rows inserted.
### Extract structured data Use `openai.chat_completions()` to analyze images and get JSON output: ```python theme={null} # Add extraction column using openai.vision (handles images directly) PROMPT = """Analyze this image and extract the following as JSON: - description: A brief description of the image - objects: List of objects visible in the image - dominant_colors: List of dominant colors - scene_type: Type of scene (indoor, outdoor, etc.)""" messages = [ { 'role': 'user', 'content': [ {'type': 'text', 'text': PROMPT}, {'type': 'image_url', 'image_url': t.image}, ], } ] t.add_computed_column( data=openai.chat_completions( messages, model='gpt-4o-mini', model_kwargs={'response_format': {'type': 'json_object'}}, ) ) ``` 
  Added 2 column values with 0 errors in 7.55 s (0.26 rows/s)
  2 rows updated.
```python theme={null} # View extracted data t.select( t.image, t.data, t.data['choices'][0]['message']['content'] ).collect() ```
```python theme={null} # You can also parse the JSON into individual columns if needed import json @pxt.udf def parse_description(data: str) -> str: return json.loads(data).get('description', '') t.select( t.image, description=parse_description( t.data['choices'][0]['message']['content'] ), ).collect() ```
## Explanation **Getting JSON output:** Pass `model_kwargs={'response_format': {'type': 'json_object'}}` to get structured JSON. **Other extraction use cases:**
## See also * [Analyze images in batch](/howto/cookbooks/images/vision-batch-analysis) * [Configure API keys](/howto/cookbooks/core/workflow-api-keys) Built with [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com).