DataFlex

Multimodal Input: File URL

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Demonstrates sending a request that includes both text and a PDF file URL for the AI to analyze.

Note: At the time of writing this example, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek do not have the ability to accept non-image multimodal data or URLs.

DataFlex

Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoAi
    Variant vSbResponse
    Handle hoSbResponse
    String sTemp1

    Move False To iSuccess

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatAi)) To hoAi
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoAi))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoAi
    End

    // The provider can be "openai", "google", or "claude".
    // At the time of writing this example, "deepseek", "xai", and "perplexity" do not have the ability to process non-image multimodal inputs.
    // Support for additional providers will be added in future versions of Chilkat.
    Set ComProvider Of hoAi To "openai"

    // Use your provider's API key.
    Set ComApiKey Of hoAi To "MY_API_KEY"

    // Choose a model.
    Set ComModel Of hoAi To "gpt-4o"

    // Add both text input, and PDF file URL.
    // If the AI provider does not natively support file URLs, Chilkat will download the file data to memory and send the file data to the AI provider (within the "Ask" method call).
    Get ComInputAddText Of hoAi "What is in this file?" To iSuccess
    Get ComInputAddFileUrl Of hoAi "https://www.chilkatsoft.com/exampledata/shakespeare.pdf" "" To iSuccess

    // Ask the AI for text output.
    Get ComAsk Of hoAi "text" To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoAi To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    // Get the text response.
    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatStringBuilder)) To hoSbResponse
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoSbResponse))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoSbResponse
    End
    Get pvComObject of hoSbResponse to vSbResponse
    Get ComGetOutputTextSb Of hoAi vSbResponse To iSuccess
    Get ComGetAsString Of hoSbResponse To sTemp1
    Showln sTemp1

    // -------------------------------------------------------------
    // The response is in markdown format.
    // Also see Markdown to HTML Conversion Examples.
    // -------------------------------------------------------------

    // Sample output:

    // The file contains a quote from William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and an image of Shakespeare. The quote is from Act 2, Scene 6:
    // 
    // “These violent delights have violent ends
    // And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
    // Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
    // Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
    // And in the taste confounds the appetite.
    // Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
    // Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”


End_Procedure