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Gemini API File Search goes multimodal for RAG
Build grounded apps over text+images with less effort.
Key Points
- 1File Search supports text plus images
- 2Custom metadata reduces noise
- 3Page-level citations for grounding
- 4Targets efficient, verifiable RAG
Google expanded Gemini API File Search to support multimodal retrieval across text and images. It adds custom metadata filters and page-level citations. This makes RAG systems easier to verify and ground. It’s especially useful for apps using internal documents and diagrams.