Embedding the image itself in image_url as a data:image/jpeg;base64,... string; this is the approach when no public URL hosts the image.
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Terms in this definition
- Embedding
A list of numbers, spanning many dimensions, that captures meaning; items with similar meaning end up near one another, as cosine similarity measures.
- Image URL
A data category you assign to a text column containing web addresses of pictures, so that tables, matrices, slicers and cards display the pictures rather than the addresses.
- URL
The web address of a resource, on which URL-based routing relies.
Related terms
- image_url
The field on an
input_imageitem that contains either a base64 data URI or a fully qualified public URL. Because Microsoft infrastructure must be able to reach the URL, private or firewall-protected addresses will fail. - input_image
The Responses API content item representing an image. Its
image_urlholds a base64 data URI or public URL, or afile_idcan point to a Files API upload, anddetailmay be set optionally.