Using Chrome AI to Summarize Comic Books / / No Comments A few weeks back, I blogged about analyzing comic books with gen ai, and honestly, it worked really darn well. I extracted the pages with Python, and send them to Google Gemini to create the summary. I was naturally curious to see if this could be done entirely on device, using Chrome’s AI support. Here’s what I found. First, a reminder – a few days ago I updated my web-based comic book reader and described that process. The code I’m sharing today is built upon that first application, so if you missed that post, I’d strongly suggest reading it first. (And if you don’t want to miss any of my posts, don’t forget to subscribe!). How It Works Alright –... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Books, Chrome, Comic, Summarize, using
Connecting Comic Books to Generative AI / / No Comments I’ve blogged quite a few times about electronic comic books (most recently earlier this month when I demonstrated a comic book reader built in BoxLang). I’ve been reading comics pretty much my entire life and enjoy building development projects that work with the various file types associated with comics. As a reminder, these typically fall into two categories: cbr – A RAR file of scanned images cbz – A zip file of scanned images This week I was wondering – given that GenAI tools are pretty good at understanding images – how well could a GenAI system take a set of images, in order, and understand the context of the story behind them. I decided to give it... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Books, Comic, Connecting, Generative