codex web tries to look at supplied images via code or orc instead visually

Resolved 💬 8 comments Opened Oct 7, 2025 by FreddyE1982 Closed Oct 15, 2025
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codex web tries to look at supplied images via code or orc instead visually

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github-actions[bot] contributor · 9 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #4819

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dylan-hurd-oai contributor · 9 months ago

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Thanks for the report! This looks like a duplicate of #4938, which is tracking image handling/interpretation in Codex Web. We’ll track it there. If you think this is an incorrect diagnosis, please reply and we’ll take another look.

dylan-hurd-oai contributor · 9 months ago

Re-opening because codex decided this issues were duplicates of each other...

joeytrasatti-openai contributor · 9 months ago

@FreddyE1982 Could you please explain how you know the images are being supplied via code? From my testing and from the design, it is getting processed to be understood visually by the model

joeytrasatti-openai contributor · 9 months ago

Could you also tell me what the image file type is?

FreddyE1982 · 9 months ago
@FreddyE1982 Could you please explain how you know the images are being supplied via code? From my testing and from the design, it is getting processed to be understood visually by the model

@joeytrasatti-openai Its a regular png file and in the protocol codex will say stuff like "I am installing ocr to inspect the image" or some other comment about installing some type of package to inspect the image.

Or is that the model preparing to inspect it visually and I´m just missinterpreting this? In that case...I´m sorry making a fuzz,

joeytrasatti-openai contributor · 9 months ago

No worries, @FreddyE1982 , I did some further testing, the model seems pretty bad at pulling instructions from an image. Looking into this further, but i can confirm it does indeed get fead the image directly. I would advise not using images for instructions, instead using images for design references.

zommerfelds · 7 months ago

I have the same issue. My use case is that I have a game and a command that can generate a screenshot. All I want is for Codex to be able to inspect the generated png file and test that the change worked correctly. E.g. "verify in the generated screenshot that the button is now red". But it tries to inspect the image programatically / with OCR instead of feeding the image to the model.