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May 27, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

From Text to Images: Building Multi‑Modal Product Search with Elasticsearch Serverless

This article walks through a complete multi‑modal product search solution that transforms textual and visual product data into embeddings, leverages dense, sparse and hybrid models, applies vector similarity and quantization techniques such as SQ and BBQ, and demonstrates how Elasticsearch Serverless provides a serverless, cost‑effective, auto‑scaling backbone for end‑to‑end retrieval.