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

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

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$success = 0;

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

$ai = chilkat::CkAi->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->put_Provider("openai");

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

# Choose a model.
$ai->put_Model("gpt-5-mini");

# 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.
$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 == 0) {
    print $ai->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Get the text response.
$sbResponse = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$ai->GetOutputTextSb($sbResponse);
print $sbResponse->getAsString() . "\r\n";