Pdf-mcp Server

The agent decides when to search; pdf-mcp does the retrieval and hands back excerpts. It is an MCP server that lets Claude Code and other AI agents search one PDF or a whole folder by meaning or…

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What is the Pdf-mcp Server?

PDF is an MCP project maintained in the jztan/pdf-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “The agent decides when to search; pdf-mcp does the retrieval and hands back excerpts. It is an MCP server that lets Claude Code and other…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

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Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

Recorded tools

Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.

ToolWhat it does
pdf_infoPage count, metadata, TOC summary, scanned-page detection. Call first.
pdf_searchHybrid search (keyword + semantic), page or section granularity, paragraph or context-window excerpts with source coordinates, the enclosing outline section…
pdf_read_pagesRead specific pages or ranges, with OCR on demand, tables, and embedded images
pdf_read_allRead a whole document in one call, byte-capped
pdf_get_tocFull table of contents for documents with many bookmarks
pdf_render_pagesRender pages as PNG for vision models: diagrams, handwriting, scans
pdf_extract_chartChart data as exact (x, y) tables, read from plot geometry
pdf_corpus_warmWarm a folder of PDFs into the cache within a time budget
pdf_corpus_overviewPer-document triage cards for a folder
pdf_corpus_searchSearch across a folder, with document and page provenance; excerpt_style="auto" picks the excerpt unit per query
pdf_cache_statsPer-document cache breakdown and total size
pdf_cache_clearClear expired or all cache entries
server_infoWhich optional features and config are active