Image to text models output a text from a given image. Image captioning or optical character recognition can be considered as the most common applications of image to text.

About Image-to-Text
Use Cases
Image Captioning
Image Captioning is the process of generating textual description of an image. This can help the visually impaired people to understand what's happening in their surroundings.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
OCR models convert the text present in an image, e.g. a scanned document, to text.https://huggingface.co/tasks/image-to-text