How can you use Llama 3.2 Vision and Node to describe an image?
In today’s article, we look at how to use Node.js, Ollama, and Llama 3.2 Vision to describe an image. Using this, AI can generate alt-text for you.
Node.js
JavaScript running on the server rather than in the browser. It is what lets one language cover both ends of an application, and it is the runtime underneath build tools like Astro.
I have written server-side JavaScript on my own projects for over a decade. Professionally it began at Bader Rutter, and at UW-Milwaukee I use it now to spin up the container stacks our Laravel applications run in.
- Articles written
- 14
- GitHub gists written
- 5
- Used at
- Bader Rutter, UW-Milwaukee
- Official website
- nodejs.org
- Age
- 17 years (since 2009)
- Projects using it
- jws.dev, telnet.jws.dev, llava-node-webservice
Experience highlights
- Deployed Node.js applications on Heroku, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Used Firebase Functions for serverless computing.
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