Invoke ollama/moondream:1.8b using cURL
Given this image:
You would like to describe it using Ollama and moondream:1.8b model you can try cURL.
First encode image in base64:
base64 -w 0 snapshot.png > image.txt
Then prepare request:
echo '{ "model": "moondream:1.8b", "prompt": "Describe", "images": ["'$(cat image.txt)'"] }' > request.json
And finally invoke cURL pointing at your Ollama server running:
curl -X POST https://127.0.1:11434/api/generate -d @request.json
In response you could get somehing like this:
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