## Image-Text to Text

Image-text-to-text models take in an image and text prompt and output text. These models are also called vision-language models, or VLMs. The difference from image-to-text models is that these models take an additional text input, not restricting the model to certain use cases like image captioning, and may also be trained to accept a conversation as input.

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### Recommended models

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### Using the API

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### API specification

For the API specification of conversational image-text-to-text models, please refer to the [Chat Completion API documentation](https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/tasks/chat-completion#api-specification).