Pdf Content Search Mcp MCP Server

This is the official Model Context Protocol bridge for PDF Content Search — a native macOS app that indexes thousands of PDFs (including scanned ones via Apple Vision OCR) and finds anything in…

Local serverstdio

What is the Pdf Content Search Mcp Server?

Pdf Content Search Mcp is an MCP project maintained in the juergenkoller-software/pdf-content-search-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “This is the official Model Context Protocol bridge for PDF Content Search — a native macOS app that indexes thousands of PDFs (including scanned ones…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Local setup

The project provides a local client configuration using /path/to/pdf-content-search-mcp. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.

Configuration values

The example declares PDF_CS_TOKEN, PDF_CS_PORT. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

How to install the Pdf Content Search Mcp Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf-content-search": {
      "command": "/path/to/pdf-content-search-mcp",
      "env": {
        "PDF_CS_TOKEN": "YOUR_PDF_CS_TOKEN",
        "PDF_CS_PORT": "44477"
      }
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
PDF_CS_TOKENDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Check documentation
PDF_CS_PORTDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Check documentation