📄 The PDF intelligence layer for AI agents — Agent Document Twin, evidence-first extraction, visual crops, OCR provenance, trust reports, and
📄 The PDF intelligence layer for AI agents — Agent Document Twin, evidence-first extraction, visual crops, OCR provenance, trust reports, and benchmark-gated releases. MCP server for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and any MCP client. The pdf reader (@sylphlab/pdf mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 10 defined tools rather than through you.
Turn PDFs into structured text, tables, OCR, visual evidence, and page-level citations — locally — via SDK, CLI, or MCP.
The server ships on npm as @sylphx/pdf-reader-mcp, 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.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
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 taskAmong the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. PDF Reader (@Sylphlab/Pdf's toolset — Export, Roadmap, Doc and 7 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by sylphlab; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against PDF Reader (@Sylphlab/Pdf's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| 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-mcp-sylphlab": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@sylphx/pdf-reader-mcp"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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