diff --git a/internal/captcha/json.go b/internal/captcha/json.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..47c48e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/captcha/json.go
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package captcha
+
+import "strings"
+
+// extractJSON returns the first {...} JSON object found in s, or s unchanged.
+func extractJSON(s string) string {
+	start := strings.Index(s, "{")
+	end := strings.LastIndex(s, "}")
+	if start >= 0 && end > start {
+		return s[start : end+1]
+	}
+	return s
+}
diff --git a/internal/captcha/text.go b/internal/captcha/text.go
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/captcha/text.go
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+package captcha
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+
+	"github.com/lukaszraczylo/captcha-solver-mcp/internal/llm"
+)
+
+// TextOptions tunes text-image OCR.
+type TextOptions struct {
+	Hint          string
+	Charset       string
+	Length        int
+	CaseSensitive bool
+}
+
+// TextResult is the OCR answer.
+type TextResult struct {
+	Text       string  `json:"text"`
+	Confidence float64 `json:"confidence"`
+}
+
+func textPrompt(o TextOptions, strict bool) string {
+	p := "You are solving an image text captcha. Read the exact characters shown. "
+	if o.Charset != "" {
+		p += "Allowed characters: " + o.Charset + ". "
+	}
+	if o.Length > 0 {
+		p += fmt.Sprintf("Expected length: %d. ", o.Length)
+	}
+	if !o.CaseSensitive {
+		p += "Case-insensitive. "
+	}
+	if o.Hint != "" {
+		p += "Hint: " + o.Hint + ". "
+	}
+	p += `Respond ONLY with compact JSON: {"text":"<chars>","confidence":<0..1>}.`
+	if strict {
+		p += " You MUST output valid JSON and nothing else. Do not explain."
+	}
+	return p
+}
+
+// SolveText runs OCR via the vision model with one stricter retry on parse failure.
+func SolveText(ctx context.Context, c llm.Client, img []byte, mediaType string, o TextOptions) (TextResult, error) {
+	images := []llm.Image{{MediaType: mediaType, Data: img}}
+	for attempt := 0; attempt < 2; attempt++ {
+		raw, err := c.Vision(ctx, textPrompt(o, attempt > 0), images, llm.Options{})
+		if err != nil {
+			return TextResult{}, err
+		}
+		var res TextResult
+		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(extractJSON(raw)), &res); err == nil && res.Text != "" {
+			return res, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return TextResult{}, fmt.Errorf("model did not return parseable captcha text")
+}
diff --git a/internal/captcha/text_test.go b/internal/captcha/text_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ad68658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/captcha/text_test.go
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+package captcha
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/lukaszraczylo/captcha-solver-mcp/internal/llm"
+)
+
+func TestSolveText(t *testing.T) {
+	f := &llm.Fake{VisionResp: `{"text":"ab12","confidence":0.9}`}
+	res, err := SolveText(context.Background(), f, []byte{1}, "image/png", TextOptions{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if res.Text != "ab12" || res.Confidence < 0.89 {
+		t.Fatalf("got %+v", res)
+	}
+	if len(f.VisionCalls) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 1 vision call")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSolveTextRetriesOnGarbage(t *testing.T) {
+	f := &llm.Fake{VisionResp: "I cannot read this"}
+	_, err := SolveText(context.Background(), f, []byte{1}, "image/png", TextOptions{})
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("want error on unparseable output")
+	}
+	if len(f.VisionCalls) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 2 attempts (one retry), got %d", len(f.VisionCalls))
+	}
+}