Stop Guessing Your Meds: Building a Multimodal RAG Assistant with LLaVA and ChromaDB

Ever stared at a cryptic medicine bottle, wondering if it interacts with your morning coffee or that other pill you're taking? For the elderly or those with visual impairments, reading tiny labels on medication packaging is more than a nuisance—it’s a safety hazard. In this tutorial, we are building a Medication Safety Assistant . This isn't just a simple OCR tool; we are implementing a Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline. We'll use LLaVA (Large Language-and-Vision Assistant