Workers AI, AI Search - Workers AI toMarkdown and AI Search now supports GIF and BMP image conversion

<p>Workers AI <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/features/markdown-conversion/">Markdown conversion</a> (<code>toMarkdown</code>) now supports <code>.gif</code> and <code>.bmp</code> image files, in addition to the JPEG, PNG, WebP, and SVG formats already supported.</p> <p>GIF and BMP files run through the same <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/features/markdown-conversion/how-it-works/#images">image pipeline</a> as other formats. Each image is resized if needed (and for animated GIFs, only the first frame is used), then passed to an object-detection model to identify what it contains. Those detected objects prompt a vision model that writes a natural-language description of the image, which becomes searchable, machine-readable Markdown.</p> <p><a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/">AI Search</a> uses <code>toMarkdown</code> automatically to process the files it ingests, so any <code>.gif</code> and <code>.bmp</code> files are included the next time your index syncs, with no configuration changes required. This helps when your content mixes formats, for example a support knowledge base full of screenshots or an archive of BMP scans.</p> <p>Learn more about <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/features/markdown-conversion/">Markdown conversion</a> and the full list of <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/ai-search/configuration/data-source/#supported-file-types">AI Search's supported file types</a>.</p>