first-class support for PDFs

[sxlijin]

Add support for PDFs:

• anthropic now supports passing in PDFs directly (tweet)
• pretty sure at least one other model provider supports this

[linear[bot]]

BAML-245 first-class support for PDFs

[alioguzhan]

For reference, I also created #1499 for this, last week.

[alioguzhan]

OpenAI also supports this, but I believe they do it via the Assistants API. I'm not sure how you abstract this functionality, but it would be great to have provider-agnostic direct PDF support.

[hellovai]

@alioguzhan the way we'd make this provider agnostic is likely by reading in PDFs in BAML itself and by creating a pdf type :)

But in the manehilw, ed like to support the providers that support this directly.

[danielvdao]

Hi @hellovai, curious when this will land? We'd like to leverage native PDF support as well.

[randomUser00]

@hellovai any updates on native pdf support?

[alioguzhan]

Does https://github.com/BoundaryML/baml/pull/2121 closes this?

[aaronvg]

yep it is supported now! https://docs.boundaryml.com/ref/baml/types#pdf Version 0.202+