Google’s Gemini API Just Made Document Search Truly Multimodal — Here’s What That Means
Google has rolled out a major upgrade to its Gemini API, extending retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) so that text and images can now live inside the same unified vector space. For developers wrestling with enterprise documents that mix paragraphs, diagrams, scanned pages, and tables, the change is a long-awaited shift. The release also introduces page-level citations and metadata-based filtering — two features that together push Gemini closer to the precision and traceability that demanding industries like healthcare, law, and engineering have been asking for. Here is a closer look at what changed, why it matters, and how the pipeline works under the hood.