PowerBuilder

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.

PowerBuilder

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Ai
oleobject loo_SbResponse

li_Success = 0

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

loo_Ai = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Ai.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Ai")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Ai
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if

// 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.
loo_Ai.Provider = "openai"

// Use your provider's API key.
loo_Ai.ApiKey = "MY_API_KEY"

// Choose a model.
loo_Ai.Model = "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).
loo_Ai.InputAddText("What is in this file?")
loo_Ai.InputAddFileUrl("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/exampledata/shakespeare.pdf","")

// Ask the AI for text output.
li_Success = loo_Ai.Ask("text")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Ai.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Ai
    return
end if

// Get the text response.
loo_SbResponse = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_SbResponse.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

loo_Ai.GetOutputTextSb(loo_SbResponse)
Write-Debug loo_SbResponse.GetAsString()

// -------------------------------------------------------------
// 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.”


destroy loo_Ai
destroy loo_SbResponse