A Model Context Protocol server for IIIF images
A Model Context Protocol server for IIIF images. That is what the mcp iiif images mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for working with IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) manifests and images. See this video for a demonstration.
The server publishes 6 tools. What each one is for:
macOS — Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:Windows — The Windows tool exposed by this serverLinux — The Linux tool exposed by this serverfetch_iiif_manifest — The fetch_iiif_manifest tool exposed by this serverfetch_iiif_image — Retrieve a IIIF image from a base URI, fetching info.json and returning the image datafetch_iiif_image_region — Retrieve a specific region of a IIIF image using percentage coordinates, with the region scaled to fit within the same constraints. Use this to fetchSetup 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.
This sits in the planning and project tracking group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. MCP Iiif Images's toolset — macOS, Windows, Linux and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by mikeapp; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| macOS | Edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json: |
| Windows | The Windows tool exposed by this server. |
| Linux | The Linux tool exposed by this server. |
| fetch_iiif_manifest | The fetch_iiif_manifest tool exposed by this server. |
| fetch_iiif_image | Retrieve a IIIF image from a base URI, fetching info.json and returning the image data. |
| fetch_iiif_image_region | Retrieve a specific region of a IIIF image using percentage coordinates, with the region scaled to fit within the same constraints. Use this to fetch regions of interest at higher detail for more accurate image descripti |
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-iiif-images": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/PATH/TO/mcp-iiif-images/server/server.js"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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