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Pdf4vllm MCP Server

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Pdf4vllm runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 139 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 12 Jan 2026.

PDF reader for vision LLMs. Auto-detects text corruption and switches to image mode.

Installs per day peak 45 · avg 21 · +21% w/w
a month agotoday
139
Installs / week
pypi · pdf4vllm-mcp
0
Stars
0 open issues
12 Jan 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 20 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

A tool parameter reaches a dangerous call

A value the model can set ends up inside a file or shell call. That is not a flaw by itself — for a terminal server it is the job — but it is where things go wrong when it is not.

A tool parameter reaches a dangerous call list_pdfs.working_directory → src/pdf_tools.py:750
            result = subprocess.run(
Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

            result = subprocess.run(

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A tool parameter here reaches a dangerous call

That is not a flaw by itself — but it is where things go wrong when it is not the job. We re-read this code on every release. Watch it and you hear from us the day another one appears.

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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.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add pdf4vllm -- uvx pdf4vllm-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf4vllm": {
      "args": [
        "pdf4vllm-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.pdf4vllm]
command = "uvx"
args = ["pdf4vllm-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf4vllm": {
      "args": [
        "pdf4vllm-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf4vllm": {
      "args": [
        "pdf4vllm-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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Pdf4vllm — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Pdf4vllm?
Pdf4vllm 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 pypi package pdf4vllm-mcp was installed 139 times last week.
How do I connect Pdf4vllm?
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 pdf4vllm-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Pdf4vllm?
The pypi package pdf4vllm-mcp was installed 139 times in the last week. Week over week that is +21%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Pdf4vllm open source?
We cannot say either way: written in Python and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.