vibe-coding-cn/skills/claude-cookbooks/references/multimodal.md

Multimodal Capabilities with Claude

Source: anthropics/claude-cookbooks/multimodal

Vision Capabilities

Getting Started with Images

• Location: multimodal/getting_started_with_vision.ipynb
• Topics: Image upload, analysis, OCR, visual question answering

Best Practices for Vision

• Location: multimodal/best_practices_for_vision.ipynb
• Topics: Image quality, prompt engineering for vision, error handling

Charts and Graphs

• Location: multimodal/reading_charts_graphs_powerpoints.ipynb
• Topics: Data extraction from charts, graph interpretation, PowerPoint analysis

Form Extraction

• Location: multimodal/how_to_transcribe_text.ipynb
• Topics: OCR, structured data extraction, form processing

Image Generation

Illustrated Responses

• Location: misc/illustrated_responses.ipynb
• Topics: Integration with Stable Diffusion, image generation prompts

Code Examples

# Vision API example
import anthropic

client = anthropic.Anthropic()

# Analyze an image
response = client.messages.create(
    model="claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022",
    max_tokens=1024,
    messages=[{
        "role": "user",
        "content": [
            {
                "type": "image",
                "source": {
                    "type": "base64",
                    "media_type": "image/jpeg",
                    "data": image_base64
                }
            },
            {
                "type": "text",
                "text": "What's in this image?"
            }
        ]
    }]
)

Tips

1. Image Quality: Higher resolution images provide better results
2. Prompt Clarity: Be specific about what you want to extract or analyze
3. Format Support: JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP supported
4. Size Limits: Max 5MB per image