Multimodal RAG: A Complete Guide to Ingesting Images, Tables, and PDFs
This article examines the blind spot of pure‑text RAG for visual content, compares three multimodal ingestion strategies—CLIP embeddings, image‑to‑text captioning with a MultiVectorRetriever, and ColPali visual retrieval—covers table‑specific handling, presents end‑to‑end TypeScript implementations, and lists common pitfalls to avoid when deploying production‑grade multimodal RAG pipelines.
