image-ocr MCP Server

by kymac-ocr Your server? Claim it

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image-ocr is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 12 tools.

Image URL → plain text OCR for bots. Free try then prepaid TEST. https://ocr.kymac.co

Uptime history 52 days of history · worst day 0%

52 days agonow

0.0%

Uptime 24h

0 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

98 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

image-ocr does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.0% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add image-ocr --transport http https://ocr.kymac.co/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://ocr.kymac.co/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.image-ocr]
url = "https://ocr.kymac.co/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "image-ocr": {
      "url": "https://ocr.kymac.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "image-ocr": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ocr.kymac.co/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 12

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

credit

credit_balance

Derived prepaid balance for this caller_id (GET /credits/balance).

credit_events

Append-only Ledger events for this caller_id (GET /credits/events): credit.grant (first_key), credit.purchase, credit.debit, optional credit.balance_snapshot.

list_credit_packs

Prepaid TEST packs (GET /credits/packs). checkout_credits is intent only; credits grant after confirm_credits.

checkout

checkout_credits

Stripe TEST PaymentIntent for a pack (POST /credits/checkout). Intent only — returns credits_pending; credits are not granted or spendable until confirm_credits succeeds. Requires a caller key.

confirm

confirm_credits

Confirm a TEST PaymentIntent with Stripe test card pm_card_visa (POST /credits/confirm). This is when credits become granted/spendable (appends credit.purchase with credits_added). TEST only.

health

health

Public readiness (GET /health): billing (test|gated) and runner_ready. No key.

issue

issue_key

Mint a caller key (POST /keys). Bot install starts at GET https://ocr.kymac.co/llms.txt (sole advertised entry). Secret ocr_… is returned once. Prefer Authorization: Bearer; X-API-Key is an alias. First issue grants 1 free credit (credit.grant reason=first_key). Quote cost with quote_credits before ocr_extract.

ocr

ocr_extract

Image OCR (POST /ocr). Install via GET https://ocr.kymac.co/llms.txt only. Prefer Authorization: Bearer; X-API-Key is an alias. Golden URL https://placehold.co/600x160/000000/FFFFFF/png?text=HELLO+OCR — compare ok true JSON in llms.txt. First key includes 1 free credit. Quote first with quote_credits (no debit). Debits 1 credit on ok:true (credit.debit reason=ocr_success). 200 bodies include credits_burned and credits_remaining. HTTP fails use code/message/retryable/next (error aliases message). 401 next=refresh key. 402: code=insufficient_credits, retryable=false, next=buy credits. Retryable fails use next=retry.

quote

quote_credits

Dry-run cost for an op without debit (GET /credits/quote?op=ocr). Returns cost, balance, and would_succeed.

revoke

revoke_key

Invalidate the presented secret (POST /keys/revoke). Same id is revoked; old secret then fails 401 invalid_api_key. Prefer Authorization: Bearer; X-API-Key is an alias only. No ops file-edit.

rotate

rotate_key

Replace the presented secret (POST /keys/rotate). Same id/caller_id and credits. New ocr_… is returned once. Old secret then fails 401 invalid_api_key. Prefer Authorization: Bearer; X-API-Key is an alias only. No ops file-edit.

verify

verify_key

Confirm IMAGE_OCR_API_KEY or Authorization: Bearer (GET /keys/verify). X-API-Key is an alias only. Does not echo the secret.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://ocr.kymac.co/mcp	streamable-http	answering	98 ms	13 min ago

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image-ocr — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can image-ocr do?

It exposes 12 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: checkout_credits, confirm_credits, credit_balance, credit_events, health, issue_key and 6 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is image-ocr working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 98 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists image-ocr as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect image-ocr?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does image-ocr need an API key?

No. image-ocr completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 12 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.