PDF MCP

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pdf-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PDF_MCP_CACHE_DIR": "your-value",
        "PDF_MCP_CACHE_TTL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

claude mcp add --env PDF_MCP_CACHE_DIR=your-value --env PDF_MCP_CACHE_TTL=your-value --transport stdio pdf-mcp -- uvx pdf-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pdf-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PDF_MCP_CACHE_DIR": "your-value",
        "PDF_MCP_CACHE_TTL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "servers": {
    "pdf-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pdf-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PDF_MCP_CACHE_DIR": "your-value",
        "PDF_MCP_CACHE_TTL": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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).

• pdf_info

  Page count, metadata, TOC summary, scanned-page detection. Call first.

• pdf_search

  Hybrid search (keyword + semantic), page or section granularity, paragraph or context-window excerpts with source…

• pdf_read_pages

  Read specific pages or ranges, with OCR on demand, tables, and embedded images

• pdf_read_all

  Read a whole document in one call, byte-capped

• pdf_get_toc

  Full table of contents for documents with many bookmarks

• pdf_render_pages

  Render pages as PNG for vision models: diagrams, handwriting, scans

• pdf_extract_chart

  Chart data as exact (x, y) tables, read from plot geometry

• pdf_corpus_warm

  Warm a folder of PDFs into the cache within a time budget

• pdf_corpus_overview

  Per-document triage cards for a folder

• pdf_corpus_search

  Search across a folder, with document and page provenance; excerptstyle="auto" picks the excerpt unit per query

• pdf_cache_stats

  Per-document cache breakdown and total size

• pdf_cache_clear

  Clear expired or all cache entries

• server_info

  Which optional features and config are active

Agentic RAG over your PDFs, one file or a whole folder, as a single MCP tool. The agent decides when to search; pdf-mcp does the retrieval and hands back excerpts. It is an MCP server that lets Claude Code and other AI agents search one PDF or a whole folder by meaning or keyword, read only the pages that matter, and cleanly pull out tables, images, and scanned text, even from multi-column and Japanese layouts, with optional CUDA acceleration for warming large corpora.

• ai
• claude
• document-processing
• llm
• mcp
• pdf
• python
• codex-cli
• opencode
• mcp-server