AI Understanding Images

Use DSPy's dspy.Image type to pass images into signatures alongside text. Vision LLMs return structured data from photos, screenshots, documents, and charts.

Step 1 - Understand the image task

Before writing code, ask:

• What images will you process? (URLs, local files, base64, cloud storage?)
• What do you need to extract? (text, categories, attributes, descriptions?)
• Does the output need to be structured? (typed fields vs. free text?)
• Are you processing images in batch or one at a time?
• Does the task require reasoning about the image, or just direct extraction?

Step 2 - Build a basic image analyzer