Sample code for 30+ languages & platforms
Perl Requires Chilkat v11.4.0+

Referencing a Pre-Uploaded Image File by file_id in an AI Request

See more AI Examples

Currently, OpenAI is the only AI provider that supports referencing a pre-uploaded image in a request for text generation.

Chilkat Perl Downloads

Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

my $success = 0;

# This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $ai = Chilkat2::Ai->new;

# OpenAI is currently the only AI provider that supports referencing a pre-uploaded image by file_id
# in a request for text generation.
$ai->Provider('openai');

# Use your provider's API key.
$ai->ApiKey('MY_API_KEY');

# Choose a model.
$ai->Model('gpt-5.6-luna');

# See the following example showing how to upload a file
# Upload an Image File to an AI Provider

# Use the file_id of the pre-uploaded file.
my $file_id = 'file-5CnBeuFasqNcAfti3cx4Fe';
$ai->InputAddImageFileId($file_id, 'application/json');

$ai->InputAddText('What is in this image?');

# Ask the AI for text output.
$success = $ai->Ask('text');
if (!$success) {
    print $ai->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Get the text response.
my $sbResponse = Chilkat2::StringBuilder->new;
$ai->GetOutputTextSb($sbResponse);
print $sbResponse->GetAsString(), "\n";