This article is the second part of a series on creating a Multimodal RAG (Retrieve, Aggregate, Generate) pipeline for chatbots from PDFs. The first part focused on extracting text, tables, and images from PDFs.
In this second part, the author discusses the process of summarizing the extracted data elements using text embeddings and storing them in a vector database.
The article outlines the flow of the process, starting with the creation of a standard prompt for the language model. The author also provides instructions for creating a prompt for image elements.
The article also mentions the use of the Gemini-2.0-flash model for cost-effectiveness. The importance of a .env file for storing the Google AI API key is highlighted.