diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f593cfb..998cde3 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ pip3 install autodistill-clip
 
 ```python
 from autodistill_clip import CLIP
+from autodistill.detection import CaptionOntology
 
-# define an ontology to map class names to our GroundingDINO prompt
+# define an ontology to map class names to our CLIP prompt
 # the ontology dictionary has the format {caption: class}
 # where caption is the prompt sent to the base model, and class is the label that will
 # be saved for that caption in the generated annotations
@@ -46,10 +47,14 @@ base_model = CLIP(
         }
     )
 )
+
+results = base_model.predict("./context_images/test.jpg")
+
+print(results)
+
 base_model.label("./context_images", extension=".jpeg")
 ```
 
-
 ## License
 
 The code in this repository is licensed under an [MIT license](LICENSE.md).
diff --git a/autodistill_clip/__init__.py b/autodistill_clip/__init__.py
index 8e531db..cdf81ee 100644
--- a/autodistill_clip/__init__.py
+++ b/autodistill_clip/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 from autodistill_clip.clip_model import CLIP
 
-__version__ = "0.1.4"
+__version__ = "0.1.5"
diff --git a/autodistill_clip/clip_model.py b/autodistill_clip/clip_model.py
index 365a61a..82522d1 100644
--- a/autodistill_clip/clip_model.py
+++ b/autodistill_clip/clip_model.py
@@ -1,20 +1,16 @@
 import os
+import sys
 from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Union
 
-import sys
-from PIL import Image
 import numpy as np
 import supervision as sv
 import torch
-from autodistill.core.embedding_ontology import (
-    EmbeddingOntology,
-    ONTOLOGY_WITH_EMBEDDINGS,
-    compare_embeddings,
-)
+from autodistill.classification import ClassificationBaseModel
 from autodistill.core.embedding_model import EmbeddingModel
+from autodistill.core.embedding_ontology import EmbeddingOntology, compare_embeddings
 from autodistill.detection import CaptionOntology
-from autodistill.classification import ClassificationBaseModel
-from typing import Union
+from autodistill.helpers import load_image
 
 HOME = os.path.expanduser("~")
 DEVICE = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
@@ -54,7 +50,8 @@ def __init__(self, ontology: Union[EmbeddingOntology, CaptionOntology]):
         self.ontology_type = self.ontology.__class__.__name__
 
     def embed_image(self, input: str) -> np.ndarray:
-        image = self.clip_preprocess(Image.open(input)).unsqueeze(0).to(DEVICE)
+        image = load_image(input, return_format="PIL")
+        image = self.clip_preprocess(image).unsqueeze(0).to(DEVICE)
 
         with torch.no_grad():
             image_features = self.clip_model.encode_image(image)
@@ -67,7 +64,8 @@ def embed_text(self, input: str) -> np.ndarray:
         )
 
     def predict(self, input: str) -> sv.Classifications:
-        image = self.clip_preprocess(Image.open(input)).unsqueeze(0).to(DEVICE)
+        image = load_image(input, return_format="PIL")
+        image = self.clip_preprocess(image).unsqueeze(0).to(DEVICE)
 
         if isinstance(self.ontology, EmbeddingOntology):
             with torch.no_grad():