Practical overview
When it fits
Use Screenai when you want to inspect or prototype with Python code for a model that combines image and text inputs, particularly for UI or infographic understanding.
Who it is for
- Python developers exploring multimodal models
- Researchers and prototypers working on UI screenshot or infographic understanding
Documented uses
- Install the package and construct a ScreenAI model instance.
- Pass image and text tensors into the model's documented forward method.
- Use the implementation as a starting point for screenshot-and-text or infographic question-answering experiments.
Requirements & limits
The public GitHub repository identifies the code as MIT-licensed and provides a pip installation command.
- The README demonstrates a forward pass with random tensors, not interpretation of real screenshots or infographic questions.
- The project is implementation code rather than a documented end-user application.
- The repository lists an encoder and decoder module-list item as unfinished.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Install Screenai and construct the model
Set up the documented Python package and create a ScreenAI model instance.
Before you start
- Python with pip3
- PyTorch, imported as torch in the example
Steps
Install the package with the command below.
pip3 install screenaiImport
torchandScreenAIfromscreenai.main.Create a model instance using the documented parameters, such as image size 224, patch size 16 and dimension 512.
Expected outcome
A ScreenAI model instance is constructed and ready for the documented tensor-input forward pass.
Guide limitations
- The guide covers installation and construction, not a real-world UI or infographic task.
- The repository lists implementation of an encoder and decoder module-list item as unfinished.
Run the documented tensor-input example
Pass example image and text tensors through a constructed ScreenAI model.
Before you start
- The Screenai package installed
- PyTorch
- A model instance configured as in the repository example
Steps
Create an image tensor with shape
(1, 3, 224, 224)usingtorch.rand.Create a text tensor with shape
(1, 1, 512)usingtorch.randn.Call
model(text, image)and print the returned value.
Expected outcome
The example produces and prints the model's forward-pass output for the supplied tensors.
Guide limitations
- The example uses randomly generated tensors rather than a real screenshot or text prompt.
- It does not document how to interpret model output for a user-facing task.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 7 October 2026
- Original website title
- kyegomez/ScreenAI · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

