I Built an Image Captioning Tool Using Llama.cpp
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- External ID
- 46331348
- Source
- HN
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- Product
- I Built an Image Captioning Tool Using Llama.cpp
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 19, 2025
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4217557251908397
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Frustrated with the apparent lack of tools for tagging and describing images locally, I built a quick and dirty little tool. You start it up, start up llama-server, and point it at a directory of photos. It scans through them, captioning them one at a time, and provides the captions and tags in an editable interface for you. When you're happy with them, you can save them, which writes them to the exif metadata of the image, and moves onto the next one
Enrichment
- Theme
- event photo sharing and memory tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- image captioning using llama.cpp
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward wrapper script or small utility that iterates through an image directory, sends each file to a running local llama-server instance via HTTP, and saves the output.
Discussion
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