doc-reading-mcp 0.1.0

A simple doc reader and converter MCP service

Use Case: Document Reading Tool

The goal is to have a tool that can read and edit files, using Cursor or Claude Desktop.

The filesystem MCP already allows reading, writing and editing documents, but is limited in that it cannot:

• Read pdfs or docx files
• Reads the full document, which can cause context overflow

To address these issues, we create:

• A fresh doc-reading-mcp mcp service allowing for document conversions between pdf, docx and markdown.

Doc Reading and Converter MCP Server

Features

• PDF to Markdown conversion using marker-pdf
• DOCX to Markdown conversion using pandoc
• Markdown to DOCX conversion using pandoc
• Markdown to PDF conversion using pandoc

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10 or higher
• [pandoc] (https://pandoc.org/installing.html) installed on your system
• [uv] (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) for Python package management

If you were running with pip, you would:

python -m venv docEnv
source docEnv/bin/activate
pip install .
python -m doc_reading_mcp

To run the package with uv:

uv run -m doc_reading_mcp

Running the server

Run the server using the inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run -m doc_reading_mcp

This starts the server with the MCP Inspector UI, which is helpful for testing and debugging.

Run in Cursor/Windsurf/Claude using the following configuration:

    "doc-reading-mcp": {
        "command": "uv",
        "args": [
            "--directory",
            "/absolute/path/to/mffrydman/doc-reading-mcp",
            "run",
            "-m",
            "doc_reading_mcp"
        ]
    }

Replace"

• /absolute/path/to/ with the actual path on your system.

Installing as a package from Github

You can go much faster by using uvx and just running:

uvx git+https://github.com/mffrydman/doc-reading-mcp

to run the service.

Configure your MCP client:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "doc-reading-mcp": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "git+https://github.com/mffrydman/doc-reading-mcp",
            ]
        }
    }
}