PDF To Text MCP Server

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PDF To Text runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping.

Local MCP server for extracting text from PDF files with optional OCR and AI fallback.

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AGPL-3.0-only

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Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check PDF To Text 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 pdf-to-text -- npx -y @jim-panse/pdf-to-text-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf-to-text": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@jim-panse/pdf-to-text-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.pdf-to-text]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@jim-panse/pdf-to-text-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf-to-text": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@jim-panse/pdf-to-text-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf-to-text": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@jim-panse/pdf-to-text-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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PDF To Text — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for PDF To Text?

PDF To Text 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 @jim-panse/pdf-to-text-mcp.

How do I connect PDF To Text?

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 @jim-panse/pdf-to-text-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

Is PDF To Text open source?

No, and the distinction matters: its licence is declared as AGPL-3.0-only. That makes it source-available — you can read the code, but the terms are the author's own, not one of the recognised open-source licences. Read them before you build on it.