# mcp-pdf

> Secure FastMCP server for comprehensive PDF processing - text extraction, OCR, table extraction, forms, annotations, and more

Record `mcp-pdf-2` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-pdf-2/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-pdf-2
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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/mcp-pdf-2/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/rsp2k/mcp-pdf#readme
- repository: https://github.com/rsp2k/mcp-pdf/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 2026.9.22
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: api, fastmcp, integration, mcp, ocr, pdf, pdf-processing, table-extraction, text-extraction
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-pdf

### Description (declared)

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# 📄 MCP PDF

<img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-PDF%20Tools-red?style=for-the-badge&logo=adobe-acrobat-reader" alt="MCP PDF">

**A FastMCP server for PDF processing**

*52 tools for text extraction, OCR, tables, forms, XFA, annotations, markdown↔PDF, and more*

[![Python 3.11+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.11+-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](https://www.python.org/downloads/)
[![FastMCP](https://img.shields.io/badge/FastMCP-2.0+-green.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp)
[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg?style=flat-square)](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/mcp-pdf?style=flat-square)](https://pypi.org/project/mcp-pdf/)

**Works great with [MCP Office Tools](https://git.supported.systems/MCP/mcp-office-tools)**

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## What It Does

MCP PDF extracts content from PDFs using multiple libraries with automatic fallbacks. If one method fails, it tries another.

**Core capabilities:**
- **Text extraction** via PyMuPDF, pdfplumber, or pypdf (auto-fallback)
- **Table extraction** via Camelot, pdfplumber, or Tabula (auto-fallback)
- **OCR** for scanned documents via Tesseract
- **Form handling** - extract, fill, and create PDF forms
- **Document assembly** - merge, split, reorder pages
- **Annotations** - sticky notes, highlights, stamps
- **Vector graphics** - extract to SVG for schematics and technical drawings
- **Format conversion** - PDF ↔ Markdown (PDF→MD via PyMuPDF, MD→PDF via pandoc)
- **XFA forms** - Schema extraction for dynamic Adobe LiveCycle forms that no open-source library can render

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## Quick Start

```bash
# Run from PyPI (one-shot, no permanent install)
uvx mcp-pdf

# Add to Claude Code — note the `--` separator before uvx
claude mcp add pdf-tools -- uvx mcp-pdf

# Include the markdown_to_pdf tool (requires pandoc on host)
claude mcp add pdf-tools -- uvx --from "mcp-pdf[markdown]" mcp-pdf
```

> `uvx` caches …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- documents.ocr (1, declared)
- documents.extraction (1, derived)
- documents.conversion (1, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.791, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-pdf/ (first seen 2026-09-10T02:24:40.973Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-pdf-2/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-pdf-2 · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-pdf-2