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This example demonstrates how to create an agent that can analyze images and generate creative text content based on the visual content.

Code

image_to_text.py
from pathlib import Path

from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.media import Image
from agno.models.openai import OpenAIChat

agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIChat(id="gpt-5-mini"),
    markdown=True,
)

image_path = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath("sample.jpg")
agent.print_response(
    "Write a 3 sentence fiction story about the image",
    images=[Image(filepath=image_path)],
)

Usage

1

Create a virtual environment

Open the Terminal and create a python virtual environment.
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
2

Install libraries

pip install -U agno openai
3

Export your OpenAI API key

  export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"
4

Create a Python file

Create a Python file and add the above code.
touch image_to_text.py
5

Run Agent

python image_to_text.py
6

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