Trying to get rid of base64

app.py

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 from transformers import pipeline
 import gradio as gr
-import io
+# import io
 import IPython.display
 from PIL import Image
 import base64
 
-get_completion = pipeline("image-to-text",model="Salesforce/blip-image-captioning-base")
+get_completion = pipeline("image-to-text",model="nlpconnect/vit-gpt2-image-captioning")
 
 def summarize(input):
     output = get_completion(input)
@@ -13,15 +13,15 @@ def summarize(input):
 
 import gradio as gr 
 
-def image_to_base64_str(pil_image):
-    byte_arr = io.BytesIO()
-    pil_image.save(byte_arr, format='PNG')
-    byte_arr = byte_arr.getvalue()
-    return str(base64.b64encode(byte_arr).decode('utf-8'))
+# def image_to_base64_str(pil_image):
+#     byte_arr = io.BytesIO()
+#     pil_image.save(byte_arr, format='PNG')
+#     byte_arr = byte_arr.getvalue()
+#     return str(base64.b64encode(byte_arr).decode('utf-8'))
 
 def captioner(image):
-    base64_image = image_to_base64_str(image)
-    result = get_completion(base64_image)
+    # base64_image = image_to_base64_str(image)
+    result = get_completion(image)
     return result[0]['generated_text']
 
 gr.close_all()