A production-grade OCR server built using MCP (Model Context Protocol) that provides OCR capabilities through a simple interface.
Connect MCP Ocr to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. A production-grade OCR server built using MCP (Model Context Protocol) that provides OCR capabilities through a simple interface. The mcp ocr mcp server is what makes that connection.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
perform_ocr — The perform_ocr tool exposed by this serverget_supported_languages — List available OCR languages: python get_supported_languages()The server ships on PyPI as mcp-ocr, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. MCP Ocr's toolset — perform_ocr, get_supported_languages — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by rjn32s; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.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 |
|---|---|
| perform_ocr | The perform_ocr tool exposed by this server. |
| get_supported_languages | List available OCR languages: python get_supported_languages() |
{
"mcpServers": {
"ocr": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-ocr"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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