diff --git a/common/arg.cpp b/common/arg.cpp
index 5fbc9022c0..9d7ad30bf4 100644
--- a/common/arg.cpp
+++ b/common/arg.cpp
@@ -2746,14 +2746,14 @@ common_params_context common_params_parser_init(common_params & params, llama_ex
         [](common_params & params, int value) {
             params.embd_normalize = value;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EMBEDDING, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DEBUG}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EMBEDDING, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MTMD, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_DEBUG}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--embd-output-format"}, "FORMAT",
         "empty = default, \"array\" = [[],[]...], \"json\" = openai style, \"json+\" = same \"json\" + cosine similarity matrix, \"raw\" = plain whitespace-delimited output (one embedding per line)",
         [](common_params & params, const std::string & value) {
             params.embd_out = value;
         }
-    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EMBEDDING}));
+    ).set_examples({LLAMA_EXAMPLE_EMBEDDING, LLAMA_EXAMPLE_MTMD}));
     add_opt(common_arg(
         {"--embd-separator"}, "STRING",
         "separator of embeddings (default \\n) for example \"<#sep#>\"",
diff --git a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
index eb43520f98..d59ed31a79 100755
--- a/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
+++ b/convert_hf_to_gguf.py
@@ -1808,7 +1808,7 @@ class MmprojModel(ModelBase):
     preprocessor_config: dict[str, Any]
     global_config: dict[str, Any]
 
-    n_block_keys = ["n_layers", "num_hidden_layers", "n_layer", "num_layers", "depth", "encoder_layers"]
+    n_block_keys = ["layers", "n_layers", "num_hidden_layers", "n_layer", "num_layers", "depth", "encoder_layers"]
 
     has_vision_encoder: bool = True # by default
     has_audio_encoder: bool = False
@@ -1830,7 +1830,13 @@ class MmprojModel(ModelBase):
             if "audio_config" not in self.hparams:
                 self.hparams["audio_config"] = {}
             text_config = {**self.hparams, **self.hparams["text_config"]}
-            self.n_embd_text = text_config.get("hidden_size", text_config.get("n_embd", 0))
+            n_embd_text = (
+                text_config.get("hidden_size")
+                or text_config.get("n_embd")
+                or text_config.get("embed_dim")
+                or 0
+            )
+            self.n_embd_text = int(n_embd_text) if n_embd_text else 0
         else:
             text_config = {
                 k: v for k, v in self.hparams.items() if k not in ["vision_encoder", "audio_encoder"]
@@ -7049,6 +7055,130 @@ class JinaBertV2Model(BertModel):
             raise NotImplementedError(f'Tokenizer {tokenizer_class} is not supported for JinaBertModel')
 
 
+@ModelBase.register("JinaCLIPModel")
+class JinaCLIPTextModel(XLMRobertaModel):
+    model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.BERT
+    _text_prefix = "text_model.transformer."
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _load_json_file(path: Path) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+            return json.load(f)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _load_hf_config_json(hf_name_or_path: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        p = Path(hf_name_or_path)
+        if p.is_dir():
+            cfg_path = p / "config.json"
+            if cfg_path.is_file():
+                return JinaCLIPTextModel._load_json_file(cfg_path)
+
+        try:
+            from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download
+        except Exception:
+            raise ImportError(
+                "huggingface_hub is required to fetch the text tower config.json for JinaClip; "
+                "install this package or provide a local path in text_config.hf_model_name_or_path."
+            )
+
+        try:
+            cfg_path = Path(hf_hub_download(repo_id=hf_name_or_path, filename="config.json", local_files_only=True))
+        except Exception:
+            cfg_path = Path(hf_hub_download(repo_id=hf_name_or_path, filename="config.json", local_files_only=False))
+        return JinaCLIPTextModel._load_json_file(cfg_path)
+
+    def __init__(self, dir_model: Path, ftype: gguf.LlamaFileType, fname_out: Path, **kwargs: Any):
+        jinaclip_hparams = ModelBase.load_hparams(dir_model, False)
+        text_cfg = jinaclip_hparams.get("text_config") or {}
+        hf_name = text_cfg.get("hf_model_name_or_path")
+        if not hf_name:
+            raise KeyError("JinaCLIPTextModel: missing text_config.hf_model_name_or_path in config.json")
+
+        base_cfg = self._load_hf_config_json(str(hf_name))
+
+        overrides = text_cfg.get("hf_model_config_kwargs") or {}
+        if not isinstance(overrides, dict):
+            raise TypeError("JinaCLIPTextModel: text_config.hf_model_config_kwargs must be a dict")
+
+        merged_hparams = {**base_cfg, **overrides}
+
+        kwargs["hparams"] = merged_hparams
+
+        super().__init__(dir_model, ftype, fname_out, **kwargs)
+
+    def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
+        if not name.startswith(self._text_prefix):
+            return []
+
+        name = name[len(self._text_prefix):]
+        return super().modify_tensors(data_torch, name, bid)
+
+
+@ModelBase.register("JinaCLIPModel")
+class JinaCLIPVisionModel(MmprojModel):
+
+    def set_gguf_parameters(self):
+        cfg = self.hparams
+
+        width = int(self.find_hparam(["width"]))
+        head_width = int(self.find_hparam(["head_width"]))
+        layers = int(self.find_hparam(["layers"]))
+        image_size = int(self.find_hparam(["image_size"]))
+        patch_size = int(self.find_hparam(["patch_size"]))
+
+        if width % head_width != 0:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"JinaCLIPVisionModel: width ({width}) not divisible by head_width ({head_width})"
+            )
+        n_head = width // head_width
+
+        if "mlp_ratio" in cfg:
+            n_ff = int(width * float(cfg["mlp_ratio"]))
+        elif bool(cfg.get("naive_swiglu", False)):
+            n_ff = int((width * 8) // 3)
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("JinaCLIPVisionModel: unable to infer FFN size; please provide 'mlp_ratio' or set 'naive_swiglu' in config.json")
+
+        self.gguf_writer.add_file_type(self.ftype)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_clip_has_vision_encoder(True)
+        proj_dim = int(self.global_config.get("projection_dim") or cfg.get("embed_dim") or width)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_projection_dim(proj_dim)
+
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_image_size(image_size)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_patch_size(patch_size)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_embedding_length(width)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_feed_forward_length(n_ff)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_block_count(layers)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_head_count(n_head)
+
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_attention_layernorm_eps(float(cfg.get("layer_norm_eps", 1e-6)))
+
+        # JinaClip v2 uses mean/std in preprocessor_config.json
+        mean = self.preprocessor_config["mean"]
+        std  = self.preprocessor_config["std"]
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_image_mean(mean)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_image_std(std)
+
+        self.gguf_writer.add_clip_projector_type(gguf.VisionProjectorType.JINACLIP2)
+        self.gguf_writer.add_vision_use_silu(True)
+
+    def modify_tensors(self, data_torch: Tensor, name: str, bid: int | None) -> Iterable[tuple[str, Tensor]]:
+        if name.startswith("vision_model."):
+            name = name[len("vision_model."):]
+        elif not (name.startswith("v.") or name.startswith("mm.")):
+            return []
+
+        if name == "pos_embed":
+            pos_name = gguf.TENSOR_NAMES[gguf.MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_EMBD_POS] + ".weight"
+            return [(pos_name, data_torch)]
+
+        try:
+            return [(self.map_tensor_name(name), data_torch)]
+        except Exception:
+            logger.debug("mmproj(jinaclip): skip unmapped tensor %s", name)
+            return []
+
+
 @ModelBase.register("OpenELMForCausalLM")
 class OpenELMModel(TextModel):
     model_arch = gguf.MODEL_ARCH.OPENELM
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
index 31273b2b5a..86754346b8 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
@@ -668,9 +668,13 @@ class MODEL_TENSOR(IntEnum):
     V_ENC_ATTN_O         = auto()
     V_ENC_ATTN_O_NORM    = auto()
     V_ENC_POST_ATTN_NORM = auto()
+    V_ENC_ATTN_LN        = auto()
     V_ENC_FFN_UP         = auto()
     V_ENC_FFN_GATE       = auto()
     V_ENC_FFN_DOWN       = auto()
+    V_ENC_FFN_NORM       = auto()
+    V_ENC_ATTN_Q_BIAS    = auto()
+    V_ENC_ATTN_V_BIAS    = auto()
     V_LAYER_SCALE_1      = auto()
     V_LAYER_SCALE_2      = auto()
     V_PRE_NORM           = auto()
@@ -1086,9 +1090,13 @@ TENSOR_NAMES: dict[MODEL_TENSOR, str] = {
     MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_O:              "v.blk.{bid}.attn_out",
     MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_O_NORM:         "v.blk.{bid}.attn_out_norm",
     MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_POST_ATTN_NORM:      "v.blk.{bid}.ln2",
+    MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_LN:             "v.blk.{bid}.attn_ln",
     MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_UP:              "v.blk.{bid}.ffn_up",
     MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_GATE:            "v.blk.{bid}.ffn_gate",
     MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_DOWN:            "v.blk.{bid}.ffn_down",
+    MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_NORM:            "v.blk.{bid}.ffn_norm",
+    MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_Q_BIAS:         "v.blk.{bid}.attn_q.bias",
+    MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_V_BIAS:         "v.blk.{bid}.attn_v.bias",
     MODEL_TENSOR.V_LAYER_SCALE_1:           "v.blk.{bid}.ls1",
     MODEL_TENSOR.V_LAYER_SCALE_2:           "v.blk.{bid}.ls2",
     MODEL_TENSOR.V_PRE_NORM:                "v.pre_ln",
@@ -1204,9 +1212,13 @@ MODEL_TENSORS: dict[MODEL_ARCH, list[MODEL_TENSOR]] = {
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_O,
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_O_NORM,
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_POST_ATTN_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_LN,
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_UP,
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_GATE,
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_DOWN,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_NORM,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_Q_BIAS,
+        MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_V_BIAS,
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_LAYER_SCALE_1,
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_LAYER_SCALE_2,
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_PRE_NORM,
@@ -3604,6 +3616,7 @@ class VisionProjectorType:
     QWEN3VL = "qwen3vl_merger"
     ULTRAVOX = "ultravox"
     INTERNVL = "internvl"
+    JINACLIP2 = "jinaclip2"
     QWEN2A = "qwen2a" # audio
     GLMA = "glma" # audio
     QWEN25O = "qwen2.5o" # omni
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py b/gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py
index 84aa868809..684255495d 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/tensor_mapping.py
@@ -1281,6 +1281,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "model.vision_tower.embeddings.cls_token", # Intern-S1
             "vision_model.class_embedding", # llama 4
             "model.vision.patch_embedding.cls_embedding", # cogvlm
+            "cls_token", # JinaCLIP v2 vision
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_EMBD_PATCH: (
@@ -1295,6 +1296,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.patch_embed.proj", # kimi-vl
             "model.vision.patch_embedding.proj", # cogvlm
             "siglip2.vision_model.embeddings.patch_embedding",
+            "patch_embed.proj", # JinaCLIP v2 vision
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_EMBD_NORM: (
@@ -1329,6 +1331,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.attn.q", # qwen2vl, generated
             "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.wq", # kimi-vl, generated
             "siglip2.vision_model.encoder.layers.{bid}.self_attn.q_proj", # youtuvl
+            "blocks.{bid}.attn.q_proj", # JinaCLIP v2 vision
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_Q_NORM: (
@@ -1347,6 +1350,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.attn.k", # qwen2vl, generated
             "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.wk", # kimi-vl, generated
             "siglip2.vision_model.encoder.layers.{bid}.self_attn.k_proj",
+            "blocks.{bid}.attn.k_proj", # JinaCLIP v2 vision
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_K_NORM: (
@@ -1365,6 +1369,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.attn.v", # qwen2vl, generated
             "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.wv", # kimi-vl, generated
             "siglip2.vision_model.encoder.layers.{bid}.self_attn.v_proj",
+            "blocks.{bid}.attn.v_proj", # JinaCLIP v2 vision
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_INPUT_NORM: (
@@ -1380,6 +1385,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.norm0", # kimi-vl (norm0/norm1)
             "model.vision.transformer.layers.{bid}.input_layernorm", # cogvlm
             "siglip2.vision_model.encoder.layers.{bid}.layer_norm1",
+            "blocks.{bid}.norm1", # JinaCLIP v2 vision
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_O: (
@@ -1396,6 +1402,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.wo", # kimi-vl
             "model.vision.transformer.layers.{bid}.attention.dense", # cogvlm
             "siglip2.vision_model.encoder.layers.{bid}.self_attn.out_proj", # youtuvl
+            "blocks.{bid}.attn.proj", # JinaCLIP v2 vision
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_POST_ATTN_NORM: (
@@ -1411,6 +1418,11 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.norm1", # kimi-vl (norm0/norm1)
             "model.vision.transformer.layers.{bid}.post_attention_layernorm", # cogvlm
             "siglip2.vision_model.encoder.layers.{bid}.layer_norm2",
+            "blocks.{bid}.norm2", # JinaCLIP v2 vision
+        ),
+
+        MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_LN: (
+            "blocks.{bid}.attn.inner_attn_ln",              # JinaCLIP v2 vision
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_UP: (
@@ -1427,12 +1439,14 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.mlp.fc0", # kimi-vl (fc0/fc1)
             "model.vision.transformer.layers.{bid}.mlp.fc1", # cogvlm
             "siglip2.vision_model.encoder.layers.{bid}.mlp.fc1",
+            "blocks.{bid}.mlp.w2", # JinaCLIP v2 vision (up)
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_GATE: (
             "vision_tower.transformer.layers.{bid}.feed_forward.gate_proj", # pixtral-hf
             "vision_encoder.transformer.layers.{bid}.feed_forward.w1", # pixtral
             "visual.blocks.{bid}.mlp.gate_proj", # qwen2.5vl
+            "blocks.{bid}.mlp.w1", # JinaCLIP v2 vision
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_DOWN: (
@@ -1449,6 +1463,11 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_tower.encoder.blocks.{bid}.mlp.fc1", # kimi-vl (fc0/fc1)
             "model.vision.transformer.layers.{bid}.mlp.fc2", # cogvlm
             "siglip2.vision_model.encoder.layers.{bid}.mlp.fc2",
+            "blocks.{bid}.mlp.w3", # JinaCLIP v2 vision (down)
+        ),
+
+        MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_FFN_NORM: (
+            "blocks.{bid}.mlp.ffn_ln",              # JinaCLIP v2 vision
         ),
 
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_LAYER_SCALE_1: (
@@ -1461,6 +1480,14 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "model.vision_tower.encoder.layer.{bid}.lambda_2", # Intern-S1
         ),
 
+        MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_Q_BIAS: (
+            "blocks.{bid}.attn.q_bias",              # JinaCLIP v2 vision
+        ),
+
+        MODEL_TENSOR.V_ENC_ATTN_V_BIAS: (
+            "blocks.{bid}.attn.v_bias",              # JinaCLIP v2 vision
+        ),
+
         MODEL_TENSOR.V_PRE_NORM: (
             "vision_tower.vision_model.pre_layrnorm",
             "vision_tower.ln_pre", # pixtral-hf
@@ -1474,6 +1501,7 @@ class TensorNameMap:
             "vision_model.layernorm_post", # llama4
             "visual.merger.ln_q", # qwen2vl
             "vision_tower.encoder.final_layernorm", # kimi-vl
+            "norm", # JinaCLIP v2 vision
             "visual.post_layernorm", # glm4v
             "siglip2.vision_model.post_layernorm",
         ),
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/CMakeLists.txt b/tools/mtmd/CMakeLists.txt
index 751440af32..56ac7c377e 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tools/mtmd/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ add_library(mtmd
             models/glm4v.cpp
             models/internvl.cpp
             models/kimivl.cpp
+            models/jinaclip2.cpp
             models/llama4.cpp
             models/llava.cpp
             models/minicpmv.cpp
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip-graph.h b/tools/mtmd/clip-graph.h
index 4c7f7504cf..62145d6dc9 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip-graph.h
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip-graph.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ struct clip_graph {
     const float eps;
     const float kq_scale;
     const clip_flash_attn_type flash_attn_type;
+    norm_type block_norm_t = NORM_TYPE_NORMAL;
 
     ggml_context_ptr ctx0_ptr;
     ggml_context * ctx0;
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h b/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h
index dd693623a2..ea016b2e57 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip-impl.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #define KEY_PROJ_SCALE_FACTOR   "clip.vision.projector.scale_factor"
 #define KEY_SPATIAL_MERGE_SIZE  "clip.vision.spatial_merge_size"
 #define KEY_IS_DEEPSTACK_LAYERS "clip.vision.is_deepstack_layers"
+#define KEY_VISION_ROPE_THETA   "clip.vision.rope_theta"
 
 #define KEY_MM_PATCH_MERGE_TYPE    "clip.vision.mm_patch_merge_type"
 #define KEY_IMAGE_GRID_PINPOINTS   "clip.vision.image_grid_pinpoints"
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@
 #define TN_ATTN_Q          "%s.blk.%d.attn_q.%s"
 #define TN_ATTN_V          "%s.blk.%d.attn_v.%s"
 #define TN_ATTN_OUTPUT     "%s.blk.%d.attn_out.%s"
+#define TN_ATTN_LN         "%s.blk.%d.attn_ln.%s"
 #define TN_ATTN_K_NORM     "%s.blk.%d.attn_k_norm.%s"
 #define TN_ATTN_Q_NORM     "%s.blk.%d.attn_q_norm.%s"
 #define TN_FFN_DOWN        "%s.blk.%d.ffn_down.%s"
@@ -225,6 +227,7 @@ enum projector_type {
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN25O, // will be replaced by QWEN2A or QWEN25VL depending on clip_ctx
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_VOXTRAL,
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_MUSIC_FLAMINGO,
+    PROJECTOR_TYPE_JINACLIP2, // JinaCLIP v2
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_LFM2,
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_KIMIVL,
     PROJECTOR_TYPE_LIGHTONOCR,
@@ -261,6 +264,7 @@ static std::map<projector_type, std::string> PROJECTOR_TYPE_NAMES = {
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_LFM2,      "lfm2"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_KIMIVL,    "kimivl"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_LIGHTONOCR,"lightonocr"},
+    { PROJECTOR_TYPE_JINACLIP2, "jinaclip2"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_COGVLM,    "cogvlm"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_JANUS_PRO, "janus_pro"},
     { PROJECTOR_TYPE_LFM2A,     "lfm2a"},
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip-model.h b/tools/mtmd/clip-model.h
index d4ff9151bb..4c01a8ad54 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip-model.h
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip-model.h
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ struct clip_layer {
     ggml_tensor * k_norm = nullptr;
     ggml_tensor * q_norm = nullptr;
 
+    ggml_tensor * attn_out_norm_w = nullptr;
+    ggml_tensor * attn_out_norm_b = nullptr;
+
     // layernorm 1
     ggml_tensor * ln_1_w = nullptr;
     ggml_tensor * ln_1_b = nullptr;
@@ -125,6 +128,8 @@ struct clip_layer {
     ggml_tensor * ff_up_b = nullptr;
     ggml_tensor * ff_gate_w = nullptr;
     ggml_tensor * ff_gate_b = nullptr;
+    ggml_tensor * ffn_hidden_norm_w = nullptr;
+    ggml_tensor * ffn_hidden_norm_b = nullptr;
     ggml_tensor * ff_down_w = nullptr;
     ggml_tensor * ff_down_b = nullptr;
 
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
index 9fa5afc390..46c7fe2eb4 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/clip.cpp
@@ -292,6 +292,8 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph::build_vit(
             ggml_tensor * learned_pos_embd,
             std::function<ggml_tensor *(ggml_tensor *, const clip_layer &)> add_pos
         ) {
+    block_norm_t = norm_t;
+
     if (learned_pos_embd) {
         inp = ggml_add(ctx0, inp, learned_pos_embd);
         cb(inp, "pos_embed", -1);
@@ -489,7 +491,6 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph::build_norm(
         cur = ggml_add(ctx0, cur, mb);
         cb(cur, "norm_b", il);
     }
-
     return cur;
 }
 
@@ -560,6 +561,14 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph::build_ffn(
             } break;
     }
 
+    if (il >= 0 && il < (int) model.layers.size()) {
+        const auto & layer = model.layers[il];
+        if (layer.ffn_hidden_norm_w) {
+            cur = build_norm(cur, layer.ffn_hidden_norm_w, layer.ffn_hidden_norm_b, block_norm_t, eps, il);
+            cb(cur, "ffn_hidden_normed", il);
+        }
+    }
+
     if (down) {
         cur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, down, cur);
     }
@@ -629,6 +638,14 @@ ggml_tensor * clip_graph::build_attn(
 
     cb(cur, "kqv_out", il);
 
+    if (il >= 0 && il < (int) model.layers.size()) {
+        const auto & layer = model.layers[il];
+        if (layer.attn_out_norm_w) {
+            cur = build_norm(cur, layer.attn_out_norm_w, layer.attn_out_norm_b, block_norm_t, eps, il);
+            cb(cur, "kqv_out_normed", il);
+        }
+    }
+
     if (wo) {
         cur = ggml_mul_mat(ctx0, wo, cur);
     }
@@ -813,6 +830,10 @@ static ggml_cgraph * clip_image_build_graph(clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32
             {
                 builder = std::make_unique<clip_graph_llama4>(ctx, img);
             } break;
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_JINACLIP2:
+            {
+                builder = std::make_unique<clip_graph_jinaclip2>(ctx, img);
+            } break;
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_ULTRAVOX:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_VOXTRAL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2A:
@@ -1200,6 +1221,11 @@ struct clip_model_loader {
                         get_u32(KEY_PROJ_SCALE_FACTOR, hparams.n_merge, false);
                         set_llava_uhd_res_candidates(model, 3);
                     } break;
+                case PROJECTOR_TYPE_JINACLIP2:
+                    {
+                        hparams.rope_theta = 10000.0f;
+                        get_f32(KEY_VISION_ROPE_THETA, hparams.rope_theta, false);
+                    } break;
                 case PROJECTOR_TYPE_ULTRAVOX:
                 case PROJECTOR_TYPE_QWEN2A:
                 case PROJECTOR_TYPE_GLMA:
@@ -1358,6 +1384,7 @@ struct clip_model_loader {
             layer.qkv_w  = get_tensor(string_format(TN_ATTN_QKV,    prefix, il, "weight"), false);
             layer.k_norm = get_tensor(string_format(TN_ATTN_K_NORM, prefix, il, "weight"), false);
             layer.q_norm = get_tensor(string_format(TN_ATTN_Q_NORM, prefix, il, "weight"), false);
+            layer.attn_out_norm_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_ATTN_LN,  prefix, il, "weight"), false);
             layer.ln_1_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LN_1,        prefix, il, "weight"), false);
             layer.ln_2_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LN_2,        prefix, il, "weight"), false);
             layer.ls_1_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LS_1,        prefix, il, "weight"), false); // no bias
@@ -1368,6 +1395,7 @@ struct clip_model_loader {
             layer.v_b    = get_tensor(string_format(TN_ATTN_V,      prefix, il, "bias"), false);
             layer.o_b    = get_tensor(string_format(TN_ATTN_OUTPUT, prefix, il, "bias"), false);
             layer.qkv_b  = get_tensor(string_format(TN_ATTN_QKV,    prefix, il, "bias"), false);
+            layer.attn_out_norm_b = get_tensor(string_format(TN_ATTN_LN,  prefix, il, "bias"), false);
             layer.ln_1_b = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LN_1,        prefix, il, "bias"), false);
             layer.ln_2_b = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LN_2,        prefix, il, "bias"), false);
 
@@ -1376,6 +1404,8 @@ struct clip_model_loader {
             layer.ff_up_b   = get_tensor(string_format(TN_FFN_UP,   prefix, il, "bias"),   false);
             layer.ff_gate_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_FFN_GATE, prefix, il, "weight"), false);
             layer.ff_gate_b = get_tensor(string_format(TN_FFN_GATE, prefix, il, "bias"),   false);
+            layer.ffn_hidden_norm_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_FFN_NORM, prefix, il, "weight"), false);
+            layer.ffn_hidden_norm_b = get_tensor(string_format(TN_FFN_NORM, prefix, il, "bias"),   false);
             layer.ff_down_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_FFN_DOWN, prefix, il, "weight"));
             layer.ff_down_b = get_tensor(string_format(TN_FFN_DOWN, prefix, il, "bias"),   false);
 
@@ -1785,6 +1815,9 @@ struct clip_model_loader {
                     model.mm_1_w = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LLAVA_PROJ, 1, "weight"));
                     model.mm_1_b = get_tensor(string_format(TN_LLAVA_PROJ, 1, "bias"));
                 } break;
+            case PROJECTOR_TYPE_JINACLIP2:
+                {
+                } break;
             case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LFM2A:
                 {
                     for (int i : {0, 2, 3, 5, 6}) {
@@ -3020,6 +3053,41 @@ bool clip_image_preprocess(struct clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_u8 * img, str
                 res_imgs->grid_y = inst.grid_size.height;
             } break;
 
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_JINACLIP2:
+            {
+                clip_image_u8 processed_image;
+                const int sz = params.image_size;
+
+                const int in_w = img->nx;
+                const int in_h = img->ny;
+                if (in_w <= 0 || in_h <= 0) {
+                    LOG_ERR("%s: invalid input image size %dx%d\n", __func__, in_w, in_h);
+                    return false;
+                }
+
+                int out_w = 0, out_h = 0;
+                if (in_w < in_h) {
+                    out_w = sz;
+                    out_h = std::max(1, (int) std::round((double) in_h * sz / in_w));
+                } else {
+                    out_h = sz;
+                    out_w = std::max(1, (int) std::round((double) in_w * sz / in_h));
+                }
+
+                clip_image_u8 resized_keep_ratio;
+                img_tool::resize(*img, resized_keep_ratio, clip_image_size{out_w, out_h}, img_tool::RESIZE_ALGO_BICUBIC);
+
+                const int x0 = std::max(0, (resized_keep_ratio.nx - sz) / 2);
+                const int y0 = std::max(0, (resized_keep_ratio.ny - sz) / 2);
+                const int crop_w = std::min(sz, resized_keep_ratio.nx);
+                const int crop_h = std::min(sz, resized_keep_ratio.ny);
+                img_tool::crop(resized_keep_ratio, processed_image, x0, y0, crop_w, crop_h);
+
+                clip_image_f32_ptr img_f32(clip_image_f32_init());
+                normalize_image_u8_to_f32(processed_image, *img_f32, params.image_mean, params.image_std);
+                res_imgs->entries.push_back(std::move(img_f32));
+            } break;
+
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LFM2:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_KIMIVL:
             {
@@ -3183,6 +3251,10 @@ int clip_n_output_tokens(const struct clip_ctx * ctx, struct clip_image_f32 * im
             {
                 // do nothing
             } break;
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_JINACLIP2:
+            {
+                n_patches = 1;
+            } break;
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LDP:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LDPV2:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_GLM_EDGE:
@@ -3613,6 +3685,52 @@ bool clip_image_batch_encode(clip_ctx * ctx, const int n_threads, const clip_ima
             }
             set_input_i32("positions", positions);
         } break;
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_JINACLIP2:
+            {
+                std::vector<int32_t> positions(n_pos);
+                for (int i = 0; i < n_pos; i++) {
+                    positions[i] = i;
+                }
+                set_input_i32("positions", positions);
+
+                const int n_patches = model.class_embedding ? (n_pos - 1) : n_pos;
+                const int n_patches_per_col = image_size_width / patch_size;
+                std::vector<int32_t> pos_data(n_pos, 0);
+
+                for (int i = 0; i < n_patches; ++i) {
+                    const int idx = model.class_embedding ? (i + 1) : i;
+                    pos_data[idx] = i / n_patches_per_col;
+                }
+                set_input_i32("pos_h", pos_data);
+
+                std::fill(pos_data.begin(), pos_data.end(), 0);
+                for (int i = 0; i < n_patches; ++i) {
+                    const int idx = model.class_embedding ? (i + 1) : i;
+                    pos_data[idx] = i % n_patches_per_col;
+                }
+                set_input_i32("pos_w", pos_data);
+
+                int pt_seq_len = 16;
+                if (patch_size > 0) {
+                    const int cand = (int) llroundf(224.0f / (float) patch_size);
+                    if (cand > 0) {
+                        pt_seq_len = cand;
+                    }
+                }
+                const float s = (float) pt_seq_len / (float) n_patches_per_col;
+                const int d_head_local = hparams.n_embd / hparams.n_head;
+                const int half_local = d_head_local / 2;
+                std::vector<float> rope_c_first(half_local);
+                std::vector<float> rope_c_second(half_local);
+
+                for (int k = 0; k < half_local; ++k) {
+                    rope_c_first[k]  = 1.0f / s;
+                    rope_c_second[k] = 1.0f / s;
+                }
+
+                set_input_f32("rope_c_first", rope_c_first);
+                set_input_f32("rope_c_second", rope_c_second);
+            } break;
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MLP:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MLP_NORM:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LDP:
@@ -3737,6 +3855,8 @@ int clip_n_mmproj_embd(const struct clip_ctx * ctx) {
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_PIXTRAL:
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_LIGHTONOCR:
             return ctx->model.mm_2_w->ne[1];
+        case PROJECTOR_TYPE_JINACLIP2:
+            return ctx->model.hparams.projection_dim;
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MLP_NORM:
             return ctx->model.mm_3_b->ne[0];
         case PROJECTOR_TYPE_MINICPMV:
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/models/jinaclip2.cpp b/tools/mtmd/models/jinaclip2.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7086a7cfbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/mtmd/models/jinaclip2.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+#include "models.h"
+
+#include <cmath>
+
+ggml_cgraph * clip_graph_jinaclip2::build() {
+    const bool has_cls = model.class_embedding != nullptr;
+    GGML_ASSERT(has_cls && "JinaCLIP2 requires a CLS token");
+
+    const int n_pos = n_patches + (has_cls ? 1 : 0);
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(n_patches_x == n_patches_y && "only square images supported");
+
+    ggml_tensor * positions = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_I32, n_pos);
+    ggml_set_name(positions, "positions");
+    ggml_set_input(positions);
+
+    ggml_tensor * pos_h = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_I32, n_pos);
+    ggml_set_name(pos_h, "pos_h");
+    ggml_set_input(pos_h);
+
+    ggml_tensor * pos_w = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_I32, n_pos);
+    ggml_set_name(pos_w, "pos_w");
+    ggml_set_input(pos_w);
+
+    GGML_ASSERT(d_head % 2 == 0);
+    ggml_tensor * rope_c_first = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, d_head / 2);
+    ggml_set_name(rope_c_first, "rope_c_first");
+    ggml_set_input(rope_c_first);
+
+    ggml_tensor * rope_c_second = ggml_new_tensor_1d(ctx0, GGML_TYPE_F32, d_head / 2);
+    ggml_set_name(rope_c_second, "rope_c_second");
+    ggml_set_input(rope_c_second);
+
+    ggml_tensor * inp = build_inp();
+    if (has_cls) {
+        inp = ggml_concat(ctx0, model.class_embedding, inp, 1);
+    }
+    inp = ggml_add(ctx0, inp, ggml_get_rows(ctx0, model.position_embeddings, positions));
+
+    auto apply_rope_2d = [&](ggml_tensor * cur) -> ggml_tensor * {
+
+        ggml_tensor * cur_in = ggml_permute(ctx0, cur, 0, 2, 1, 3);
+
+        const int64_t n_dim = cur_in->ne[0];
+        const int64_t seq   = cur_in->ne[1];
+        const int64_t nhead = cur_in->ne[2];
+        GGML_ASSERT(seq == n_pos);
+        GGML_ASSERT(n_dim % 2 == 0);
+
+        const int64_t half = n_dim / 2;
+
+        ggml_tensor * cls = nullptr;
+        ggml_tensor * patches = cur_in;
+        int64_t n_pos_patches = seq;
+        int64_t pos_offset = 0;
+
+        if (has_cls) {
+            cls = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, cur_in, n_dim, 1, nhead, cur_in->nb[1], cur_in->nb[2], 0);
+            patches = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, cur_in, n_dim, seq - 1, nhead, cur_in->nb[1], cur_in->nb[2], cur_in->nb[1]);
+            n_pos_patches = seq - 1;
+            pos_offset = 1;
+        }
+
+        // select positions
+        ggml_tensor * pos_a = ggml_view_1d(ctx0, pos_h, n_pos_patches, pos_offset * (int64_t) ggml_element_size(pos_h));
+        ggml_tensor * pos_b = ggml_view_1d(ctx0, pos_w, n_pos_patches, pos_offset * (int64_t) ggml_element_size(pos_w));
+
+        ggml_tensor * first = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, patches,
+            half, nhead, n_pos_patches,
+            patches->nb[2], patches->nb[1], 0);
+        ggml_tensor * first_rot = ggml_rope_ext(
+            ctx0,
+            first,
+            pos_a,
+            rope_c_first,
+            half,
+            0, 0, hparams.rope_theta,
+            1.0f,
+            0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
+        first = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, first_rot,
+            half, n_pos_patches, nhead,
+            first_rot->nb[2], first_rot->nb[1], 0);
+
+        ggml_tensor * second = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, patches,
+            half, nhead, n_pos_patches,
+            patches->nb[2], patches->nb[1],
+            half * (int64_t) ggml_element_size(patches));
+        ggml_tensor * second_rot = ggml_rope_ext(
+            ctx0,
+            second,
+            pos_b,
+            rope_c_second,
+            half,
+            0, 0, hparams.rope_theta,
+            1.0f,
+            0.0f, 1.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f);
+        second = ggml_view_3d(ctx0, second_rot,
+            half, n_pos_patches, nhead,
+            second_rot->nb[2], second_rot->nb[1], 0);
+
+        ggml_tensor * patches_out = ggml_concat(ctx0, first, second, 0);
+        ggml_tensor * out_seq = has_cls ? ggml_concat(ctx0, cls, patches_out, 1) : patches_out;
+        return ggml_permute(ctx0, out_seq, 0, 2, 1, 3);
+    };
+
+    auto add_pos = [&](ggml_tensor * cur, const clip_layer &) {
+        return apply_rope_2d(cur);
+    };
+
+    ggml_tensor * cur = build_vit(
+                            inp, n_pos,
+                            NORM_TYPE_NORMAL,
+                            hparams.ffn_op,
+                            nullptr,
+                            add_pos);
+
+    ggml_tensor * cls = ggml_view_2d(ctx0, cur, cur->ne[0], 1, cur->nb[1], 0);
+    ggml_set_name(cls, "cls_view");
+    ggml_build_forward_expand(gf, cls);
+
+    return gf;
+}
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/models/models.h b/tools/mtmd/models/models.h
index 9970980c7b..d960673afb 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/models/models.h
+++ b/tools/mtmd/models/models.h
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ struct clip_graph_kimivl : clip_graph {
     ggml_cgraph * build() override;
 };
 
+struct clip_graph_jinaclip2 : clip_graph {
+    clip_graph_jinaclip2(clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32 & img) : clip_graph(ctx, img) {}
+    ggml_cgraph * build() override;
+};
+
 struct clip_graph_cogvlm : clip_graph {
     clip_graph_cogvlm(clip_ctx * ctx, const clip_image_f32 & img) : clip_graph(ctx, img) {}
     ggml_cgraph * build() override;
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/mtmd-cli.cpp b/tools/mtmd/mtmd-cli.cpp
index 054c7faa6a..9159b5cf56 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/mtmd-cli.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/mtmd-cli.cpp
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ static void show_additional_info(int /*argc*/, char ** argv) {
     LOG(
         "Experimental CLI for multimodal\n\n"
         "Usage: %s [options] -m <model> --mmproj <mmproj> --image <image> --audio <audio> -p <prompt>\n\n"
-        "  -m and --mmproj are required\n"
+        "  -m and --mmproj are required in chat/generation modes\n"
+        "  Embedding mode: -m + --mmproj + --image + --embd-output-format (no prompt required)\n"
         "  -hf user/repo can replace both -m and --mmproj in most cases\n"
         "  --image, --audio and -p are optional, if NOT provided, the CLI will run in chat mode\n"
         "  to disable using GPU for mmproj model, add --no-mmproj-offload\n",
@@ -174,6 +175,117 @@ struct mtmd_cli_context {
     }
 };
 
+static int run_mmproj_only(common_params & params) {
+    if (params.embd_out.empty()) return -1;
+    if (!params.prompt.empty()) return -1;
+    if (params.mmproj.path.empty() || params.image.empty()) return -1;
+
+    mtmd_context_params ctx_params = mtmd_context_params_default();
+    ctx_params.use_gpu          = params.mmproj_use_gpu;
+    ctx_params.warmup           = params.warmup;
+    ctx_params.image_min_tokens = params.image_min_tokens;
+    ctx_params.image_max_tokens = params.image_max_tokens;
+    mtmd_mmproj_context_t mctx = mtmd_mmproj_init(params.mmproj.path.c_str(), ctx_params);
+    if (!mctx) {
+        LOG_ERR("[ERROR] Failed to load vision mmproj: %s\n", params.mmproj.path.c_str());
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    const std::string fmt = params.embd_out;
+
+    std::vector<std::vector<float>> embeddings;
+    embeddings.reserve(params.image.size());
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < params.image.size(); ++i) {
+        const char * image_path = params.image[i].c_str();
+        mtmd::bitmap bmp(mtmd_helper_bitmap_init_from_file_noctx(image_path));
+        if (!bmp.ptr) {
+            LOG_ERR("[ERROR] Failed to decode image %s\n", image_path);
+            mtmd_mmproj_free(mctx);
+            return 1;
+        }
+
+        float * emb = nullptr; size_t n_el = 0;
+        int enc_rc = mtmd_mmproj_encode_bitmap(mctx, bmp.ptr.get(), params.cpuparams.n_threads, &emb, &n_el);
+        if (enc_rc != 0 || !emb || n_el == 0) {
+            LOG_ERR("[ERROR] Image encoding failed: %s\n", image_path);
+            mtmd_mmproj_free(mctx);
+            return 1;
+        }
+        std::vector<float> image_embd(emb, emb + n_el);
+        std::free(emb);
+
+        if (params.embd_normalize != -1) {
+            common_embd_normalize(image_embd.data(), image_embd.data(), (int) image_embd.size(), params.embd_normalize);
+        }
+        embeddings.emplace_back(std::move(image_embd));
+    }
+
+    const bool is_array = fmt == "array";
+    const bool is_json  = fmt == "json" || fmt == "json+";
+    if (is_array || is_json) {
+        const bool not_array = !is_array;
+
+        LOG(not_array ? "{\n  \"object\": \"list\",\n  \"data\": [\n" : "[");
+        for (size_t j = 0; j < embeddings.size(); ++j) {
+            const auto & e = embeddings[j];
+
+            if (not_array) LOG("    {\n      \"object\": \"embedding\",\n      \"index\": %zu,\n      \"embedding\": ", j);
+            LOG("[");
+            for (size_t i = 0; i < e.size(); ++i) {
+                LOG(params.embd_normalize == 0 ? "%1.0f" : "%1.7f", e[i]);
+                if (i + 1 < e.size()) LOG(",");
+            }
+            LOG(not_array ? "]\n    }" : "]");
+
+            if (j + 1 < embeddings.size()) LOG(not_array ? ",\n" : ",");
+        }
+        LOG(not_array ? "\n  ]" : "]\n");
+
+        if (fmt == "json+" && embeddings.size() > 1) {
+            bool same_dim = true;
+            const size_t n_dim = embeddings[0].size();
+            for (size_t i = 1; i < embeddings.size(); ++i) {
+                if (embeddings[i].size() != n_dim) {
+                    same_dim = false;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            if (same_dim) {
+                LOG(",\n  \"cosineSimilarity\": [\n");
+                for (size_t i = 0; i < embeddings.size(); ++i) {
+                    LOG("    [");
+                    for (size_t j = 0; j < embeddings.size(); ++j) {
+                        float sim = common_embd_similarity_cos(embeddings[i].data(), embeddings[j].data(), (int) n_dim);
+                        LOG("%6.2f", sim);
+                        if (j + 1 < embeddings.size()) LOG(", ");
+                    }
+                    LOG(" ]");
+                    if (i + 1 < embeddings.size()) LOG(",\n");
+                }
+                LOG("\n  ]");
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (not_array) LOG("\n}\n");
+    } else if (fmt == "raw") {
+        for (size_t j = 0; j < embeddings.size(); ++j) {
+            const auto & e = embeddings[j];
+            for (size_t i = 0; i < e.size(); ++i) {
+                if (i) LOG(" ");
+                LOG(params.embd_normalize == 0 ? "%1.0f" : "%1.7f", e[i]);
+            }
+            LOG("\n");
+        }
+    } else {
+        LOG_ERR("[ERROR] Invalid --embd-output-format: '%s'\n", fmt.c_str());
+        mtmd_mmproj_free(mctx);
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    mtmd_mmproj_free(mctx);
+    return 0;
+}
+
 static int generate_response(mtmd_cli_context & ctx, int n_predict) {
     llama_tokens generated_tokens;
     for (int i = 0; i < n_predict; i++) {
@@ -282,6 +394,11 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
         return 1;
     }
 
+    {
+        int rc = run_mmproj_only(params);
+        if (rc >= 0) return rc;
+    }
+
     common_init();
     mtmd_helper_log_set(common_log_default_callback, nullptr);
 
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.cpp b/tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.cpp
index 902a4b456d..c11ab1a24a 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.cpp
@@ -519,3 +519,15 @@ mtmd_bitmap * mtmd_helper_bitmap_init_from_file(mtmd_context * ctx, const char *
 
     return mtmd_helper_bitmap_init_from_buf(ctx, buf.data(), buf.size());
 }
+
+mtmd_bitmap * mtmd_helper_bitmap_init_from_file_noctx(const char * fname) {
+    int nx = 0, ny = 0, nc = 0;
+    unsigned char * data = stbi_load(fname, &nx, &ny, &nc, 3);
+    if (!data) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s: failed to decode image file %s\n", __func__, fname);
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+    mtmd_bitmap * result = mtmd_bitmap_init(nx, ny, data);
+    stbi_image_free(data);
+    return result;
+}
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.h b/tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.h
index 5036b92442..264665d104 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.h
+++ b/tools/mtmd/mtmd-helper.h
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ MTMD_API mtmd_bitmap * mtmd_helper_bitmap_init_from_file(mtmd_context * ctx, con
 // this function is thread-safe
 MTMD_API mtmd_bitmap * mtmd_helper_bitmap_init_from_buf(mtmd_context * ctx, const unsigned char * buf, size_t len);
 
+// Decode an image file without mtmd_context
+MTMD_API mtmd_bitmap * mtmd_helper_bitmap_init_from_file_noctx(const char * fname);
+
 // helper to count the total number of tokens from a list of chunks, useful to keep track of KV cache
 MTMD_API size_t mtmd_helper_get_n_tokens(const mtmd_input_chunks * chunks);
 
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp b/tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp
index d037e834f3..381fb293ae 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp
+++ b/tools/mtmd/mtmd.cpp
@@ -425,6 +425,87 @@ void mtmd_free(mtmd_context * ctx) {
     delete ctx;
 }
 
+struct mtmd_mmproj_context {
+    clip_ctx * ctx_v = nullptr;
+};
+
+mtmd_mmproj_context_t mtmd_mmproj_init(const char * mmproj_fname,
+                                       const struct mtmd_context_params ctx_params) {
+    clip_context_params clip_params{};
+    clip_params.use_gpu          = ctx_params.use_gpu;
+    clip_params.flash_attn_type  = CLIP_FLASH_ATTN_TYPE_AUTO;
+    clip_params.image_min_tokens = ctx_params.image_min_tokens;
+    clip_params.image_max_tokens = ctx_params.image_max_tokens;
+    clip_params.warmup           = ctx_params.warmup;
+    clip_params.cb_eval          = nullptr;
+    clip_params.cb_eval_user_data = nullptr;
+    auto res = clip_init(mmproj_fname, clip_params);
+    if (!res.ctx_v) {
+        return nullptr;
+    }
+    auto * ctx = new mtmd_mmproj_context();
+    ctx->ctx_v = res.ctx_v;
+    return ctx;
+}
+
+void mtmd_mmproj_free(mtmd_mmproj_context_t ctx) {
+    if (!ctx) return;
+    clip_free(ctx->ctx_v);
+    delete ctx;
+}
+
+int32_t mtmd_mmproj_encode_bitmap(mtmd_mmproj_context_t ctx,
+                                  const mtmd_bitmap * bmp,
+                                  int32_t n_threads,
+                                  float ** out_data,
+                                  size_t * out_count) {
+    if (!ctx || !ctx->ctx_v || !bmp || !out_data || !out_count) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s: invalid args: ctx=%p ctx_v=%p bmp=%p out_data=%p out_count=%p\n",
+                __func__, (void*) ctx, ctx ? (void*) ctx->ctx_v : (void*) nullptr,
+                (void*) bmp, (void*) out_data, (void*) out_count);
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    clip_image_u8_ptr img_u8(clip_image_u8_init());
+    img_u8->nx = bmp->nx;
+    img_u8->ny = bmp->ny;
+    img_u8->buf.resize(bmp->data.size());
+    std::memcpy(img_u8->buf.data(), bmp->data.data(), img_u8->nx * img_u8->ny * 3);
+
+    clip_image_f32_batch batch_f32;
+    bool ok = clip_image_preprocess(ctx->ctx_v, img_u8.get(), &batch_f32);
+    if (!ok) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s: image preprocess failed (nx=%u ny=%u proj=%d)\n",
+                __func__, img_u8->nx, img_u8->ny, (int) clip_get_projector_type(ctx->ctx_v));
+        return 1;
+    }
+    clip_image_f32 * processed_img = clip_image_f32_get_img(&batch_f32, 0);
+    if (!processed_img) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s: preprocessed image is null\n", __func__);
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    const int n_tok   = clip_n_output_tokens(ctx->ctx_v, processed_img);
+    const int n_embd  = clip_n_mmproj_embd(ctx->ctx_v);
+    const size_t n_el = (size_t) n_tok * (size_t) n_embd;
+    std::vector<float> buf(n_el);
+    if (!clip_image_encode(ctx->ctx_v, n_threads, processed_img, buf.data())) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s: image encode failed (threads=%d tokens=%d embd=%d)\n",
+                __func__, n_threads, n_tok, n_embd);
+        return 1;
+    }
+
+    float * out = (float *) std::malloc(n_el * sizeof(float));
+    if (!out) {
+        LOG_ERR("%s: malloc failed (elements=%zu bytes=%zu)\n", __func__, n_el, n_el * sizeof(float));
+        return 1;
+    }
+    std::memcpy(out, buf.data(), n_el * sizeof(float));
+    *out_data  = out;
+    *out_count = n_el;
+    return 0;
+}
+
 struct mtmd_tokenizer {
     mtmd_context * ctx;
     std::vector<const mtmd_bitmap *> bitmaps;
diff --git a/tools/mtmd/mtmd.h b/tools/mtmd/mtmd.h
index ef25d32bbe..cc8a7e6c40 100644
--- a/tools/mtmd/mtmd.h
+++ b/tools/mtmd/mtmd.h
@@ -231,6 +231,23 @@ MTMD_API float * mtmd_get_output_embd(mtmd_context * ctx);
 // If this is not called, or NULL is supplied, everything is output on stderr.
 MTMD_API void mtmd_log_set(ggml_log_callback log_callback, void * user_data);
 
+typedef struct mtmd_mmproj_context * mtmd_mmproj_context_t;
+
+// initialize a minimal context that only loads the projector
+MTMD_API mtmd_mmproj_context_t mtmd_mmproj_init(const char * mmproj_fname,
+                                                const struct mtmd_context_params ctx_params);
+
+// free projector-only context
+MTMD_API void mtmd_mmproj_free(mtmd_mmproj_context_t ctx);
+
+// encode a bitmap to projector embeddings
+// returns 0 on success, 1 on failure
+MTMD_API int32_t mtmd_mmproj_encode_bitmap(mtmd_mmproj_context_t ctx,
+                                           const mtmd_bitmap * bmp,
+                                           int32_t n_threads,
+                                           float ** out_data,
+                                           size_t * out_count);
+
 /////////////////////////////////////////
 
 // test function, to be used in test-mtmd-c-api.c