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PDF to Markdown MCP Server

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PDF to Markdown is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 1 tools.

Convert public PDF links into Markdown with page counts and explicit excerpt limits.

Uptime history 36 days of history · worst day 0%
36 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
1
Tools
read from the server
59 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 4

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 8 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

18 Oct a tool description was rewritten convert_pdf_url
18 Oct a tool changed the parameters it asks for convert_pdf_url
8 Oct a tool description was rewritten convert_pdf_url
8 Oct a tool changed version

PDF to Markdown does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 0.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.

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

Available tools 1

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

convert
convert_pdf_url
Use when someone asks to read, quote or summarize a PDF that sits at a public web link, or wants it as Markdown or HTML for research or a coding project. Returns extracted text, page and table counts, and whether scanned pages were found. It does not OCR scanned pages and it cannot open private links or local files. The reply holds at most 20,000 Markdown characters and marks a longer result as an excerpt; the whole PDF counts toward the API page allowance.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://pdfmd.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 59 ms 6 min ago

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PDF to Markdown — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can PDF to Markdown do?
It exposes 1 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: convert_pdf_url. 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 PDF to Markdown 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 59 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists PDF to Markdown 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 PDF to Markdown?
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 PDF to Markdown need an API key?
No. PDF to Markdown completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 1 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.