PDF Extraction MCP server

MCP server to extract contents from a PDF file

Components

Tools

The server implements one tool:

• extract-pdf-contents: Extract contents from a local PDF file
  • Takes "pdf_path" as a required string argument, representing the local file path of the PDF file
  • Takes "pages" as an optional string argument, representing the page numbers to extract contents from the PDF file. Page numbers are separated in comma, and negative page numbers supported (e.g. '-1' means the last page)
  • Supports PDF file reader and OCR

Quickstart

Install

Claude Desktop

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Development/Unpublished Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "pdf_extraction": { "command": "uv", "args": [ "--directory", "/Users/xraywu/Workspace/pdf_extraction", "run", "pdf_extraction" ] } } ```

Published Servers Configuration

``` "mcpServers": { "pdf_extraction": { "command": "uvx", "args": [ "pdf_extraction" ] } } ```