When the SDK Says No: Vision-Aware RAG via a 300-Line Python Bridge

This is Part 3 — the final chapter in turning a text-only knowledge base into a fully vision-aware RAG system After moving CLIP embeddings into Oracle AI Database 26ai, I had something great: true multimodal search. Text queries found images. Images found related text. No OCR, no captions—just CLIP doing its magic in the database. But I quickly hit a wall. When I asked my knowledge management app: “What color is the car in this photo?” ...

November 22, 2025 · 14 min · Brian Hengen

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