Citra — PDF evidence for agents (Sylphx). Local-first structured text, tables, OCR, visual evidence, citations via MCP/CLI/SDK. Package id
Pdf reader mcp mcp server lets Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients work with Pdf Reader MCP directly. Citra — PDF evidence for agents (Sylphx). Local-first structured text, tables, OCR, visual evidence, citations via MCP/CLI/SDK. Package id transitional: @sylphx/pdf-reader-mcp.
Turn PDFs into structured text, tables, OCR, visual evidence, and page-level citations — locally — via SDK, CLI, or MCP.
Once connected, the assistant can call these 10 tools directly:
Export — @sylphx/pdf-reader-mcp/sdk → Citra (read / search / evidence)Roadmap — ** idiomatic high-level @sylphx/citra package name + richer typed SDK; semantics stay isomorphic with CLI/MCPDoc — PurposePlatform — Native package (auto optionalDependency)read_pdf — Smart default: markdown, tables, structure, OCR, citationssearch_pdf — Find page + snippet matches before deep readingpdf_evidence — Crops, renders, inspect, focused evidence opsMode — What it measurespersistent_warm — long-lived server, repeated identical local read_pdf after warm-upstartup_inclusive — spawn + initialize + one taskThe server is distributed via npm as @sylphx/pdf-reader-mcp, so most clients can run it without a manual build step. Add it to your MCP client's configuration and restart the client to pick it up — the copy-paste configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are on this page.
Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. Pdf Reader MCP sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — Export, Roadmap, Doc among others — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Export | @sylphx/pdf-reader-mcp/sdk → Citra (read / search / evidence) |
| Roadmap | ** idiomatic high-level @sylphx/citra package name + richer typed SDK; semantics stay isomorphic with CLI/MCP |
| Doc | Purpose |
| Platform | Native package (auto optionalDependency) |
| read_pdf | Smart default: markdown, tables, structure, OCR, citations |
| search_pdf | Find page + snippet matches before deep reading |
| pdf_evidence | Crops, renders, inspect, focused evidence ops |
| Mode | What it measures |
| persistent_warm | long-lived server, repeated identical local read_pdf after warm-up |
| startup_inclusive | spawn + initialize + one task |
{
"mcpServers": {
"pdf-reader": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@sylphx/pdf-reader-mcp"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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