MCP server for GroupDocs.Total — annotate, sign, convert, watermark, parse, redact documents via AI.
Groupdocs MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Groupdocs directly instead of describing what you should do. MCP server for GroupDocs.Total — annotate, sign, convert, watermark, parse, redact documents via AI.
Unified MCP server that exposes the full GroupDocs.Total document-processing toolset — annotation, comparison, conversion, markdown, merging, metadata, parsing, redaction, signing, watermarking, plus cross-product document inspection and page preview — as AI-callable tools for Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and other MCP agents. Designed to be used standalone — attaching the individual product MCPs (GroupDocs.Annotation.Mcp, GroupDocs.Signature.Mcp, …) alongside is unnecessary and would duplicate tools.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
You will need 3 environment variables: GROUPDOCS_LICENSE_PATH, GROUPDOCS_MCP_STORAGE_PATH, GROUPDOCS_MCP_OUTPUT_PATH. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by groupdocs-total; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Groupdocs's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
{
"mcpServers": {
"groupdocs-total": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "--rm", "-i", "-v", "/path/to/documents:/data", "ghcr.io/groupdocs-total/total-net-mcp:latest"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| GROUPDOCS_LICENSE_PATH | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
| GROUPDOCS_MCP_STORAGE_PATH | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
| GROUPDOCS_MCP_OUTPUT_PATH | Filesystem location the server is allowed to use. | Optional |
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