image-to-text image-captioning endpoints-template license:apache-2.0 endpoints_compatible region:us
---
tags:
- image-to-text
- image-captioning
- endpoints-template
license: apache-2.0
---

# Fork of [salesforce/BLIP](https://github.com/salesforce/BLIP) for a `image-captioning` task on 🤗Inference endpoint.


This repo uses a [custom handler](https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-endpoints/guides/custom_handler) that allows an Inference Endpoint to accept an array of URLs to be used by the BLIP model. 

This repo also expands on [florentgbelidji/blip_captioning](https://huggingface.co/florentgbelidji/blip_captioning)

## Expected Payload

```json
{
  "inputs": [
    "https://url.to/image_1.jpg",
    "https://url.to/image_2.jpg",
  ]
}
```

## Response Payload

```json
{
  "captions": [
    "a caption for the first image", 
    "a caption for the second image"
  ]
}
```
