PDF Tools

A server for manipulating PDF files, including merging, page extraction, and searching.

Install

Install and configure the MCP from https://github.com/hanweg/mcp-pdf-tools now. Follow the repository's installation instructions, ask me for anything you can't complete yourself, and verify its tools load.

View source on GitHub

README

WORK IN PROGRESS - USE WITH CAUTION - Windows:

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

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"
            ]
        }
    }
}