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by hanweg

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MCP PDF Tools Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that provides PDF manipulation tools. This server allows LLMs to perform operations like merging PDFs and extracting pages through the Model Context Protocol.

Features

  • Merge multiple PDF files into a single PDF
  • Merge multiple PDF files into a single PDF in user specified order
  • Extract specific pages from a PDF file
  • Search PDFs filesystem search or Everything search works better than this
  • Find (and merge) related PDFs based on text extraction and regex pattern matching from a target input PDF

Installation

  1. Clone this repository
cd mcp-pdf-tools # Create and activate virtual environment uv venv .venv\Scripts\activate # Install the package uv pip install -e .

Usage with Claude Desktop

Add this to your Claude Desktop configuration file (claude_desktop_config.json):

{ "mcpServers": { "pdf-tools": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "PATH_TO\\mcp-pdf-tools", "run", "pdf-tools" ] } } }
Install Server
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security – no known vulnerabilities
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license - permissive license
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quality - confirmed to work

local-only server

The server can only run on the client's local machine because it depends on local resources.

mcp using PyPDF2 to: • merge-pdfs • extract-pages • search-pdfs • merge-pdfs-ordered (merge in user spec. order) • find-related-pdfs (regex extracted text for related PDF files)

  1. MCP PDF Tools Server
    1. Features
    2. Installation
    3. Usage with Claude Desktop

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