37 tools to read, create, merge, split, watermark, fill, redact & search PDFs. Local, no API key.
Pdf MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Pdf directly instead of describing what you should do. 37 tools to read, create, merge, split, watermark, fill, redact & search PDFs. Local, no API key.
A comprehensive MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for PDF operations. 37 tools for reading, searching, creating, merging, splitting, watermarking, stamping, form filling, redacting, annotating, comparing, optimizing, and more.
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at pdf-suite-mcp on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
Once Pdf is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
Category — ToolsRead — Extract text (per-page), PDF info & metadataSearch — Full-text search with context, compare two PDFsCreate — Generate PDFs from text (with headings), images to PDFManipulate — Merge, split, rotate, delete, extract, reorder, insert, reverse, blank pages, crop, overlay PDF, N-up page layoutOverlay — Watermark, page numbers, add text, add image, headers/footers, business stamps, signaturesAnnotate — Redact regions, highlight, draw shapes (rect/line/ellipse)Forms — Read form fields, fill forms (text/checkbox/dropdown/radio)Metadata — Set title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producerSecurity — Decrypt password-protected PDFsOptimize — Flatten forms, compress, validate, repairAttachments — Embed files inside a PDFAmong 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's toolset — Category, Read, Search and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by beepboop2025; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Category | Tools |
| Read | Extract text (per-page), PDF info & metadata |
| Search | Full-text search with context, compare two PDFs |
| Create | Generate PDFs from text (with headings), images to PDF |
| Manipulate | Merge, split, rotate, delete, extract, reorder, insert, reverse, blank pages, crop, overlay PDF, N-up page layout |
| Overlay | Watermark, page numbers, add text, add image, headers/footers, business stamps, signatures |
| Annotate | Redact regions, highlight, draw shapes (rect/line/ellipse) |
| Forms | Read form fields, fill forms (text/checkbox/dropdown/radio) |
| Metadata | Set title, author, subject, keywords, creator, producer |
| Security | Decrypt password-protected PDFs |
| Optimize | Flatten forms, compress, validate, repair |
| Attachments | Embed files inside a PDF |
| Reading | The Reading tool exposed by this server. |
| Searching | The Searching tool exposed by this server. |
### From a local clone
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"pdf-suite": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/path/to/pdf-suite-mcp/dist/index.js"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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