lance-format / lance-format/lance-data-viewer

Handling of binary data

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Since Oct 2, 2025.

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Description

Since LanceDB supports multi-modal, it would be nice to allow binary objects to be rendered as respective images, videos, audio, etc. This also helps with performance. Currently, when loading a lancedb table with images in them, the data viewer hangs.

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