zz-img-caption 0.0.2

CLI tool for image caption using BLIP & BLIP2

ZZ-Image-Caption

Image captioner CLI using BLIP and BLIP2 models

Installation

Requirements:

• Python 3.10 or higher

Install using pip:

pip install zz-image-caption

Install pytorch

You may need to install pytorch separately depending on your system to use CUDA (default to use CPU if not available).

Usage

Basic usage:

Print caption for an image to the console

caption image.jpg

Advanced usage:

Rename images in a directory with their captions

caption images/ -o filename

Write metadata for images in a directory with their captions

caption images/ -o metadata

Print caption for an image to the console using the BLIP2 model

caption image.jpg --blip2

Command Line Interface Options

The following table lists all the command-line arguments available with descriptions and additional details:

Argument	Type	Choices	Default	Description
-v, --version	flag			Display the version of the tool.
input	string			Path to the input image file or directory.
-o, --output	string	text, json, metadata, filename		Specify the output type.
-a, --append	string			Append string to caption output.
-t, --token	integer		32	Max token length for captioning.
-b, --batch	integer		1	Batch size for captioning.
-p, --prompt	string			Prompt for captioning.
--temp, --temperature	float		1.0	Temperature for captioning.
--seed	integer			Seed for reproducibility.
--large	flag			Use the large model for captioning.
--cpu	flag			Use CPU instead of GPU (not recommended).
--blip2	flag			Use Blip2 model for captioning.
--verbose	flag			Print verbose output.
--debug	flag			Print debug output.

Help:

caption --help