ExactPDF MCP Server

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ExactPDF runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 68 installs a week from npm.

Agent-facing PDF API: merge, split, rotate, compress, images, metadata, text, and Markdown.

Installs per day peak 188 · avg 16 · -63% w/w

a month agotoday

Installs / week

npm · @exactpdf/mcp

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Stars

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Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check ExactPDF every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add mcp -- npx -y @exactpdf/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@exactpdf/mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@exactpdf/mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@exactpdf/mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@exactpdf/mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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ExactPDF — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for ExactPDF?

ExactPDF runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package @exactpdf/mcp was installed 68 times last week.

How do I connect ExactPDF?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls @exactpdf/mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use ExactPDF?

The npm package @exactpdf/mcp was installed 68 times in the last week. Week over week that is -63%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.