Adding Image Processing Capabilities to the Chatbot with Gemini

Gemini is a popular multimodal chatbot built by Google. It can take input from various data modalities, such as text, images, charts, PDFs, videos, and audio. We are particularly interested in Gemini’s image-processing capabilities for our use case. A simple use case would be to generate HTML code from the image of a web page. This will greatly enhance our educational chatbot’s capabilities. Let’s begin!

Google AI Studio is a web-based tool designed to prototype and experiment with the Gemini AI models. The AI Studio can be a great place to get started with Gemini, but most importantly, the Studio also allows us to generate an API key that can be used to access Gemini using code.

Creating a Gemini API key

Let’s quickly walk through the API key creation process. Head over to the AI Studio and login. Then, follow the slides below: