From 331eab81f785b08eabc41e320f59c45c42a7d73f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: oobabooga <112222186+oobabooga@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:44:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] mtmd: Explain base64 inputs in the API docs

---
 docs/12 - OpenAI API.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/12 - OpenAI API.md b/docs/12 - OpenAI API.md
index fd3309c7..f85991f4 100644
--- a/docs/12 - OpenAI API.md	
+++ b/docs/12 - OpenAI API.md	
@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/v1/chat/completions \
   }'
 ```
 
+For base64-encoded images, just replace the inner "url" value with the base64 string, formatted as `data:image/FORMAT;base64,BASE64_STRING` where FORMAT is the image type (image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, etc.) and BASE64_STRING is your encoded image.
+
 ##### With /v1/completions
 
 ```shell
@@ -129,6 +131,8 @@ curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/v1/completions \
   }'
 ```
 
+For base64-encoded images, just replace the inner "url" values with the base64 strings, formatted as `data:image/FORMAT;base64,BASE64_STRING` where FORMAT is the image type (image/png, image/jpeg, image/gif, etc.) and BASE64_STRING is your encoded image.
+
 #### SSE streaming
 
 ```shell