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PDFDispatch MCP Server

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PDFs from HTML, Markdown, web pages and Office files; merge PDFs, screenshots. Sign in or API key.

Uptime history 20 hours of history
20 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
75 of 75 checks
—
Tools
hidden behind auth
180 ms
Response time
average over 24h
OAuth sign-in
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

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

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 0 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp --transport http https://mcp.pdfdispatch.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://mcp.pdfdispatch.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp]
url = "https://mcp.pdfdispatch.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp": {
      "url": "https://mcp.pdfdispatch.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.pdfdispatch.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This endpoint answered with an authorization challenge. The server is running, and it signs you in through your browser: there is no API key to paste.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://mcp.pdfdispatch.com/mcp streamable-http sign-in 166 ms 0 min ago

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PDFDispatch — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no tool list for PDFDispatch?
The server answered our handshake with an authorization challenge, so it is running — but it will not describe its tools to an anonymous client. To see them you need to connect with your own credentials. We record it as alive, not as broken: 100.0% of checks in the last 24 hours got a reply.
Is PDFDispatch working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 75 of 75 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 180 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect PDFDispatch?
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. You sign in through your browser once and the client keeps the session: no key to copy, and it refuses anonymous clients.
How do you sign in to PDFDispatch?
No API key is involved. PDFDispatch answers our knock with an OAuth challenge, so you authorise it once in your browser and the client keeps the session. That is also why we see no tool list: it will not describe itself to an anonymous client, and that is the server working as intended, not a fault.
How fast is PDFDispatch?
It answers our handshake in 180 ms on average, which is faster than 76% of all working MCP servers we measure. That puts it in the quick quarter of the ecosystem. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.