# Replicate — Automating image collection

- Company: Replicate (replicate.com)
- Announced: 2022-08-05
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replicate.com/blog/grab-hundreds-of-images-with-clip-and-laion
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2582-automating-image-collection
- Subject: Platform

A blog post tutorial on using the clip-retrieval pip package to collect hundreds of images and captions from the LAION-5B dataset, either by text query or image similarity, for use as init images with text-to-image models on Replicate.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://replicate.com/blog/grab-hundreds-of-images-with-clip-and-laion:

> I’m going to show you how to use a pip package called clip-retrieval to collect hundreds of images (and captions) from the LAION-5B dataset.

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Record: https://forck.live/items/2582-automating-image-collection
Catalogue: https://forck.live/llms.txt
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