MCP server for the Transkribus REST API — manage collections, documents, recognition, models, and more. 300 tools across 22 resource domains.
Connect Transkribus to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. MCP server for the Transkribus REST API — manage collections, documents, recognition, models, and more. 300 tools across 22 resource domains. The transkribus mcp server is what makes that connection.
MCP server for the Transkribus REST API. Manage collections, documents, HTR/OCR recognition, models, and more through the Model Context Protocol.
The server ships on npm as @lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server, 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.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
transkribus-mcp-server — All 22 domainstranskribus-mcp-collections — Auth, Collections (core/docs/pages/users/crowd/editdecl/credits/stats/labels/activity/tags)transkribus-mcp-admin — Auth, Admin, Credits, Uploads, Labels, Files, System, Roottranskribus-mcp-transcription — Auth, Recognition, Layout Analysis, PyLaia, P2PaLA, DUtranskribus-mcp-users — Auth, Users, Crowdsourcing, eLearningtranskribus-mcp-models — Auth, Modelstranskribus-mcp-jobs — Auth, Jobs, Actionstranskribus-mcp-search — Auth, Search, KWSConfiguration is passed through the environment: TRANSKRIBUS_USER, TRANSKRIBUS_PASSWORD, TRANSKRIBUS_SESSION_ID. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Transkribus's toolset — transkribus-mcp-server, transkribus-mcp-collections, transkribus-mcp-admin and 5 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by lazyants; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| transkribus-mcp-server | All 22 domains |
| transkribus-mcp-collections | Auth, Collections (core/docs/pages/users/crowd/editdecl/credits/stats/labels/activity/tags) |
| transkribus-mcp-admin | Auth, Admin, Credits, Uploads, Labels, Files, System, Root |
| transkribus-mcp-transcription | Auth, Recognition, Layout Analysis, PyLaia, P2PaLA, DU |
| transkribus-mcp-users | Auth, Users, Crowdsourcing, eLearning |
| transkribus-mcp-models | Auth, Models |
| transkribus-mcp-jobs | Auth, Jobs, Actions |
| transkribus-mcp-search | Auth, Search, KWS |
{
"mcpServers": {
"transkribus": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server"],
"env": {
"TRANSKRIBUS_USER": "your-value",
"TRANSKRIBUS_PASSWORD": "your-value",
"TRANSKRIBUS_SESSION_ID": "your-value"
}
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| TRANSKRIBUS_USER | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| TRANSKRIBUS_PASSWORD | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| TRANSKRIBUS_SESSION_ID | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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