pdf-mcp MCP server

MCP server that lets Claude Code and other AI agents read and search large PDFs, one file or a whole folder: agentic RAG with hybrid semantic + keyword search, selective page reads, tables, images, OCR, chart data, and multi-column/CJK layouts.

What pdf-mcp does

Summarised from the project README; check the repository for the latest details.

Tools exposed (13)

• 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 coordinates, the enclosing
• 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

How to install pdf-mcp

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