iflow-mcp_matsengrp-pdf-navigator-mcp

# PDF Navigator MCP A comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for PDF reading, navigation, and text search with cross-platform PDF viewer integration. Eliminates PyMuPDF dependency issues by providing PDF functionality through MCP. ## Features - **PDF text extraction** - Read full PDFs or specific pages/ranges - **PDF structure analysis** - Extract table of contents and page summaries - **Text search with location** - Find text and jump to results - **Direct PDF navigation** - Open PDFs to specific pages - **PDF form filling** - Extract form fields to markdown, edit, and fill PDFs - **Cross-platform PDF viewers** - Supports Skim, Zathura, Evince, and more - **MCP integration** - Works with Claude Code and other MCP clients - **No dependency issues** - PyMuPDF isolated in MCP server environment ## Installation ```bash # Install with pipx (recommended) pipx install git+https://github.com/matsengrp/pdf-navigator-mcp.git # Or install in current environment pip install git+https://github.com/matsengrp/pdf-navigator-mcp.git ``` ## Claude Code Integration Add to your `~/.claude.json`: ```json { "mcpServers": { "pdf-navigator": { "type": "stdio", "command": "pdf-navigator-mcp" } } } ``` ## Usage In Claude Code, you can: - **"Read the abstract from paper.pdf"** → Extracts and shows text content - **"What's the table of contents for paper.pdf?"** → Shows PDF structure - **"Read pages 5-10 of paper.pdf"** → Extracts specific page range - **"Search for 'parameter efficiency' in paper.pdf"** → Finds text and locations - **"Open paper.pdf to page 5"** → Opens PDF viewer to specific page - **"Extract form fields from application.pdf"** → Creates markdown file with form fields - **"Fill the PDF form with my data"** → Fills PDF using edited markdown data ## MCP Tools ### Reading Tools - `read_pdf_text(file_path, start_page, end_page)` - Extract text from page range - `read_pdf_page(file_path, page_number)` - Extract text from single pa…