# Can LayoutLM be used for images?
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**Author:**  [@eveningkid](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Feveningkid)%5C
**Post date:** [October 24, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fcan-layoutlm-be-used-for-images%2F1723%2F1 "2020-10-24T14:16:41Z")
Hi,
I am very new to transformers and found out about it when looking for a LayoutLM implementation.
Now from my understanding, LayoutLM can be used to extract information from a document based on the layout it guessed.
When browsing the documentation, **I could only see examples using plain text** and I don’t know where to begin to put an image instead.
If it would be possible to help a newbie like me, **showing how to pass it an image and how to interpret the results** , you would really make me an happy man!!
I really hope someone can help me.
Have a great day 🙂
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**Author:**  [@rgwatwormhill](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Frgwatwormhill)%5C
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 3:17pm UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fcan-layoutlm-be-used-for-images%2F1723%2F2 "2020-11-18T15:17:39Z")
Hi eveningkid,
transformer models are designed for text.
It might be possible to force the model to accept a numeric representation of an image (after all, it’s all ones and noughts), but it would be unlikely to do anything useful.
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**Author:**  [@hasansalimkanmaz](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fhasansalimkanmaz)%5C
**Post date:** [January 11, 2021, 5:43am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fcan-layoutlm-be-used-for-images%2F1723%2F3 "2021-01-11T05:43:41Z")
Especially Image embeddings are not implemented and open-sourced. You can see this [thread](https://github.com/microsoft/unilm/issues/165) but it should be harder according to the thread