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Gemini File Search becomes multimodal for RAG
Build RAG over images+text with page-cited answers.
Key Points
- 1Multimodal retrieval across images and text
- 2Filter queries with custom metadata
- 3Return page-level citations for PDFs
Google expanded Gemini API File Search to support multimodal retrieval across images and text. It also added custom metadata filters and page-level citations for PDFs. This makes it easier to build verifiable RAG systems over messy real-world corpora like diagrams and screenshots.