# photon-mcp

> MCP server for the Photon Commerce document extraction API

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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/photon-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://apidocs.photoncommerce.com/
- repository: https://github.com/Photon-Commerce/Photon-MCP/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: claude, document-extraction, invoice, mcp, model-context-protocol, ocr
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:photon-mcp

### Description (declared)

# Photon Commerce MCP server

[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/photon-mcp.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/photon-mcp/)
[![Python](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/photon-mcp.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/photon-mcp/)
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[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)](LICENSE)

Turn invoices, receipts, checks, remittances, bank statements, utility bills, pay stubs,
shipping labels and bills of lading into structured JSON — from inside Claude or any other
MCP client.

This is an [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server for the
[Photon Commerce API](https://apidocs.photoncommerce.com/). It runs locally over stdio and
talks to nothing but the Photon REST API — no database, no cloud storage, no hosting to
stand up. You bring your own API credentials and it acts on your behalf.

## Quickstart

You need Python 3.10 or newer and a set of Photon API credentials
([get them below](#get-credentials)).

```bash
claude mcp add photon -- uvx photon-mcp \
  -e PHOTON_CLIENT_ID=... \
  -e PHOTON_SECRET_KEY=... \
  -e PHOTON_USERNAME=you@example.com \
  -e PHOTON_API_KEY=... \
  -e PHOTON_PASSWORD=... \
  -e PHOTON_ALLOWED_DIRS=/Users/you/Documents/invoices
```

Then just ask for what you want — *"pull the totals out of
~/Documents/invoices/acme.pdf"* or *"what kind of document is this?"*

## Get credentials

If you don't already have an account, register for a free sandbox one:

```bash
curl -X POST https://sandbox-api.photoncommerce.com/api/v4/register \
  -F first_name=Jane -F last_name=Doe \
  -F email=you@example.com -F password='YourPassw0rd!'
```

You get back a `client_id`, `api_key`, `secret_key` and `username`. Those plus your
password are the five values the server needs. Sandbox accounts include 20 pages over 14
days. For a production account, email <api@photoncommerce.com>.

#…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- documents.extraction (1, derived)
- documents.invoice-processing (1, declared)
- documents.ocr (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/photon-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T09:26:18.659Z)

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