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MCP Document Reader MCP Server

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MCP Document Reader runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 174 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 13 Mar 2026.

An MCP enabled multi-format document reader supporting DOCX, PDF, TXT, and Excel files

Installs per day peak 125 · avg 47 · -40% w/w
a month agotoday
174
Installs / week
pypi · mcp-documents-reader
23
Stars
0 open issues
13 Mar 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
Python

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Document Reader 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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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 mcp_documents_reader -- uvx mcp-documents-reader
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp_documents_reader": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-documents-reader"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp_documents_reader]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-documents-reader"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp_documents_reader": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-documents-reader"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp_documents_reader": {
      "args": [
        "mcp-documents-reader"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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MCP Document Reader — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Document Reader?
MCP Document Reader 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 mcp-documents-reader was installed 174 times last week.
How do I connect MCP Document Reader?
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 mcp-documents-reader straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use MCP Document Reader?
The pypi package mcp-documents-reader was installed 174 times in the last week. Week over week that is -40%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is MCP Document Reader open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python and 23 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.