# PaliGemma Image Captioning Gradio App

## Deployment Instructions

1. Create a new Hugging Face Space
2. Choose Python as the SDK
3. Select 16GB CPU hardware
4. Upload the following files:
   - `app.py`
   - `requirements.txt`

### HuggingFace Access Token

1. Go to HuggingFace settings
2. Create a new access token with "Read" permissions
3. Add the token as a secret named `HF_TOKEN` in your Space settings

### Features
- Multi-language image captioning
- Upload custom images
- Example images included
- Supports English, Spanish, French, German captions

## Model Details
- Model: google/paligemma-3b-mix-224
- Task: Multilingual Image Captioning