Citra — PDF evidence for agents (Sylphx). Local-first structured text, tables, OCR, visual evidence, citations via MCP/CLI/SDK. Package id
Connect Pdf to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. 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. The pdf mcp server is what makes that connection.
Turn PDFs into structured text, tables, OCR, visual evidence, and page-level citations — locally — via SDK, CLI, or MCP.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
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 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.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Pdf's toolset — Export, Roadmap, Doc and 7 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by shtse8; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against 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": {
"reader-mcp-server-py": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@sylphx/pdf-reader-mcp"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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