Image To Text

Pass a local sample.jpg to GPT-5.2 with OpenAIResponses and print a three-sentence story about the image.

Image to Text Example.

image_to_text.py
"""
Image To Text
=============================

Image to Text Example.
"""

from pathlib import Path

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

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Create Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIResponses(id="gpt-5.2"),
    markdown=True,
)

image_path = Path(__file__).parent.joinpath("sample.jpg")

# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Run Agent
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
if __name__ == "__main__":
    agent.print_response(
        "Write a 3 sentence fiction story about the image",
        images=[Image(filepath=image_path)],
    )

Run the Example

Set up your virtual environment

uv venv --python 3.12
source .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

uv pip install -U agno openai

Export your OpenAI API key

export OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key_here"

Add the sample image

Place a JPEG named sample.jpg in the same directory as image_to_text.py.

Run the example

Save the code above as image_to_text.py, then run:

python image_to_text.py

Full source: cookbook/02_agents/12_multimodal/image_to_text.py