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Reading Images & Screenshots

Support questions often come as screenshots - an error dialog, a settings page, a receipt. Wallu can look at those images and use what it sees when answering. Both options live in the General Configuration card in Settings.

Screenshot of the General Configuration card on the Wallu admin panel settings page with the "Read text from images in all messages" (OCR) and "Analyze attached images when answering" options

Image analysis​

Setting: Analyze attached images when answering.

What it does: when Wallu is answering (e.g. when mentioned), it looks at attached images and uses them as context - reading text, understanding screenshots, and describing what's shown.

Recommended: on. It lets Wallu actually see the screenshot a user is asking about. Turn it off only to save credits.

Image text recognition (OCR)​

Setting: Read text from images in all messages ("Image OCR").

What it does: reads text from images in all messages, not just when Wallu is mentioned. If a user posts a screenshot of an error that matches your docs or an FAQ, Wallu can answer as if they'd typed the text out.

When to enable: if your users frequently paste screenshots of errors. It can increase credit usage when lots of images are posted, so weigh that against how often it helps.

Video transcripts​

When a document contains a YouTube link, Wallu pulls the video's transcript into that document and answers from it. Handy when your best explanation lives in a video rather than in text - paste the link into a text document (with a line of context about what the video covers) and it becomes searchable knowledge.

Requires a paid plan, and it's on by default there. Turn it off on the Documents page under Document Settings → Extract YouTube video transcriptions if you'd rather Wallu ignored linked videos.

Screenshot of the Document Settings section on the Wallu admin panel Documents page with the Extract YouTube video transcriptions option enabled

Sending images back​

Wallu can also send images: upload a screenshot on the File Attachments tab and reference it from an FAQ or document. See Data, Files & Bulk Tools.