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Nutrient Document Engine MCP Server

Nutrient Document Engine MCP Server is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. MCP server for self-hosted Nutrient Document Engine: extract, edit, redact, and annotate documents. It has 62 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y @nutrient-sdk/document-engine-mcp-server.

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Install Nutrient Document Engine MCP Server

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nutrient-document-engine-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@nutrient-sdk/document-engine-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOCUMENT_ENGINE_BASE_URL": "your-value",
        "DOCUMENT_ENGINE_API_AUTH_TOKEN": "your-value",
        "DASHBOARD_PASSWORD": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env DOCUMENT_ENGINE_BASE_URL=your-value --env DOCUMENT_ENGINE_API_AUTH_TOKEN=your-value --env DASHBOARD_PASSWORD=your-value --transport stdio nutrient-document-engine-mcp-server -- npx -y @nutrient-sdk/document-engine-mcp-server

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nutrient-document-engine-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@nutrient-sdk/document-engine-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOCUMENT_ENGINE_BASE_URL": "your-value",
        "DOCUMENT_ENGINE_API_AUTH_TOKEN": "your-value",
        "DASHBOARD_PASSWORD": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "document_engine_api_auth_token",
      "description": "DOCUMENT_ENGINE_API_AUTH_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "dashboard_password",
      "description": "DASHBOARD_PASSWORD",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "nutrient-document-engine-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@nutrient-sdk/document-engine-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOCUMENT_ENGINE_BASE_URL": "your-value",
        "DOCUMENT_ENGINE_API_AUTH_TOKEN": "${input:document_engine_api_auth_token}",
        "DASHBOARD_PASSWORD": "${input:dashboard_password}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
DOCUMENT_ENGINE_BASE_URLYesBase URL of your Nutrient Document Engine instance (e.g. http://localhost:5000).
DOCUMENT_ENGINE_API_AUTH_TOKENsecretYesAPI auth token for your Document Engine instance.
DASHBOARD_USERNAMENoOptional: enables the local status dashboard (Basic auth username).
DASHBOARD_PASSWORDsecretNoOptional: local status dashboard password.
LOG_LEVELNoOptional log level (default info).

About Nutrient Document Engine MCP Server

Connect AI agents to document processing. This MCP server exposes document processing capabilities through natural language, supporting both direct human interaction and AI agent tool calling.

  • agentic-ai
  • document-processing
  • document-processor
  • mcp-server
  • mcp
  • model-context-protocol

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How do I install the Nutrient Document Engine MCP Server MCP server?

Add the command npx -y @nutrient-sdk/document-engine-mcp-server to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Nutrient Document Engine MCP Server free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (DOCUMENT_ENGINE_API_AUTH_TOKEN and DASHBOARD_PASSWORD) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Nutrient Document Engine MCP Server actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Aug 27, 2026. The latest release is v0.0.3, published Aug 27, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.