📄 MCP PDF Server

A PDF file reading server based on FastMCP.

Supports PDF text extraction, OCR recognition, and image extraction via the MCP protocol, with a built-in web debugger for easy testing.

🚀 Features

• read_pdf_text
  Extracts normal text from a PDF (page by page).

• read_by_ocr
  Uses OCR to recognize text from scanned or image-based PDFs.

• read_pdf_to_file
  Converts PDF files to TXT files with optional OCR support.

📂 Project Structure

mcp-pdf-server/
├── pdf_server.py         # Main server entry point
└── README.md             # Project documentation

⚙️ Installation

Recommended Python version: 3.9+

pip install pymupdf mcp

Note: To use OCR features, you may need a MuPDF build with OCR support or external OCR libraries.

🤖 Configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf-reader": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "timeout": 60000,
      "args": [
        "mcp-pdf-reader"
      ]
    }
  }
}

🔦 Start the Server

Run the following command:

python pdf_server.py

You should see logs like:

INFO:mcp-pdf-server:Starting MCP PDF Server...

🛠️ API Tool List

📝 Example Usage

Extract text from pages 1 to 5:

mcp run read_pdf_text --args '{"file_path": "pdf_resources/example.pdf", "start_page": 1, "end_page": 5}'

Perform OCR recognition on page 1:

mcp run read_by_ocr --args '{"file_path": "pdf_resources/example.pdf", "start_page": 1, "end_page": 1, "language": "eng"}'

Convert PDF files to TXT files:

mcp run read_pdf_to_file --args '{"file_paths": ["pdf_resources/example.pdf"], "use_ocr": "no"}'

Convert PDF files with OCR support:

mcp run read_pdf_to_file --args '{"file_paths": ["pdf_resources/example.pdf"], "use_ocr": "yes", "language": "eng", "dpi": 300}'

📢 Notes

• Files must be placed inside the pdf_resources/ directory, or an absolute path must be provided.
• OCR functionality requires appropriate OCR support in the environment.
• When processing large files, adjust memory and timeout settings as needed.

📜 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.
For commercial use, please credit the original source.