Cast

The cast function in GenAIScript allows you to convert text or images to structured data. It provides a simple interface to leverage the power of LLMs for extracting data from unstructured text and images.

Usage

cast is defined in the GenAIScript runtime and needs to be imported. It takes the unstructure text (or files), a JSON schema and returns the extract data (or error).

import { cast } from "genaiscript/runtime"

const { data } = await cast(
    "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.; jumps",
    {
        type: "object",
        properties: {
            partOfSpeech: { type: "string" },
        },
    },
    {
        instructions: `You will be presented with a sentence and a word contained
in that sentence. You have to determine the part of speech for a given word`,
    }
)

Note

cast is provided as part of the runtime (slightly different way to package GenAIScript functionalities) and needs to be imported using this code…

import { cast } from "genaiscript/runtime"

Images

You can pass a function that takes a prompt context and build the DATA variable programmatically. This allows you to select files, images and other GenAIScript options.

const res = await cast(_ => {
    _.defImages('DATA', img)
}, ...)

Model and other options

The cast function uses the cast model alias by default. You can modify this alias or specify another model in the options.

const res = await cast("...", {
    model: "large",
})

The options are passed internally to the inline prompt and can be used to modify the behavior of the LLM.

Acknowlegments

This function is inspired from Marvin.