# iflow-mcp_matsengrp-pdf-navigator-mcp

> Comprehensive MCP server for PDF reading, navigation, and text search

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/iflow-mcp-matsengrp-pdf-navigator-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/matsengrp/pdf-navigator-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/matsengrp/pdf-navigator-mcp
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: pdf, navigation, mcp, claude, text-search
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:iflow-mcp_matsengrp-pdf-navigator-mcp

### Description (declared)

# 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…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.version-control (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/iflow-mcp_matsengrp-pdf-navigator-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T19:25:13.824Z)

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