Best MCP servers for OCR
We found 96 MCP servers for OCR in the catalog; these are the 15 that rank highest. The order comes from our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness, documentation and publisher identity. Nobody can pay for a place on this list. docling.rs, Mistral MCP and MinerU lead it. flatmark is published by the company that makes it. docling.rs has the most GitHub stars here (111). 13 of the 15 had activity in the last 30 days. Remote servers need no local install; local ones run on your machine and can reach local files. Each entry lists why it made the list and links to its install page.
Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade
Top 15 of 96
- 1docling.rs
docling-project
Documents to Markdown for agents: PDF layout, tables and OCR, Office, HTML, scans.
- Most GitHub stars here (111)
- Most weekly downloads here (1.3K)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 111↓ 1.3K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2Mistral MCP
Swih
Mistral MCP server: extract invoices and documents from text, Markdown or OCR into typed JSON.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 15Last active Sep 28, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3MinerU
linxule
MinerU document parsing API — PDFs, images, DOCX, PPTX with OCR and batch processing.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 10Last active Oct 5, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4PDF To Text
Jim-Panse
Extracts PDF text locally, with macOS PDFKit and Vision OCR fallbacks and optional AI retry.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (AGPL-3.0)
↓ 110/wkLast active Oct 15, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5Promptready MCP
hydrojwh
Convert PDF/CSV to Markdown with AI-powered OCR via the PromptReady cloud API.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
↓ 238/wkLast active Oct 4, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6reMarkable MCP Server
wavyrai
Access your reMarkable tablet - read documents, browse files, extract text and OCR handwritten notes
- Open source (MIT)
★ 21↓ 90/wkLast active Aug 24, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 7Transkribus
lazyants
Transkribus REST and Processing APIs — collections, HTR/OCR; default v1, optional v2 beta.
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 2↓ 47/wkLast active Oct 3, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8Sezzlee PDF
sezzlee
Extract text from local PDF documents with optional pluggable OCR.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 1Last active Oct 13, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9macOS Vision MCP
woladi
Local OCR & screen understanding for agents: read any window, find what to click.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 7Last active Aug 25, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 10Ocular Audio MCP
RayAKaan
MCP server for video transcripts, screenshots, and OCR on YouTube and web videos.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 1Last active Oct 12, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11PaperOffice AI
paperoffice-ai
Document AI and headless DMS: OCR, IDP, search, workflows, signatures.
- Runs locally or as a remote server
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
Last active Oct 23, 2026Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12flatmark
flatmark.devOfficial
Document to Markdown MCP server: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and HTML, with OCR for large files.
- Published by the vendor
- Remote server, no local install
- Active in the last 30 days
Last active Oct 2, 2026Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 13Suparse Document Processing
suparse
Extract data, create schemas, and export results from PDFs and documents with Suparse AI OCR.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
Last active Oct 19, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 14PDF Text Extractor
fernandoguiraud16-coder
Extract text, pages and metadata from PDFs in bulk, with OCR for scanned files.
- Remote server, no local install
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
Last active Oct 21, 2026Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 15fm-mcp
yrangana
Delegate summarising, extraction, classification and OCR to the macOS 27 on-device model.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 4↓ 4/wkLast active Oct 18, 2026Local (stdio)
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet