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Best MCP servers for PDF

We found 734 MCP servers for PDF 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. anymd, CLIO Arxiv and PDF MCP lead it. Browserless and Presio are published by the company that makes them. kordoc has the most GitHub stars here (2,726). 14 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 734

  1. 1
    anymd

    SylphxAI

    Any file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Office, EPUB, HTML, images, audio/video.

    • 1.1K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (MIT)

    ★ 1.1KLast active Oct 21, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2

  2. 2
    CLIO Arxiv

    iowarp

    Search arXiv by topic, author, title or date, read paper details, and export BibTeX or PDFs.

    • Most weekly downloads here (7.3K)
    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (BSD-3-Clause)

    ★ 30↓ 7.3K/wkLast active Oct 8, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2

  3. 3
    PDF MCP

    jztan

    Agentic RAG over one PDF or a whole folder: hybrid search, selective page reads, tables, OCR.

    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (MIT)

    ★ 155↓ 770/wkLast active Oct 8, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Claude Desktop +2

  4. 4
    kordoc

    chrisryugj

    Parse Korean documents (HWP, HWPX, PDF, XLSX, DOCX, PPTX) to Markdown; fill forms, diff, render.

    • Most GitHub stars here (2,726)
    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (MIT)

    ★ 2.7KLast active Oct 26, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2

  5. 5
    Docling MCP

    docling-project

    Convert PDFs and other documents to structured formats via Docling, for AI applications.

    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (MIT)

    ★ 776↓ 4.9K/wkLast active Oct 21, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2

  6. 6
    PDF Modifier

    mlorentedev

    Modify PDF text, replace with regex, and analyze layout while preserving fonts.

    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (MIT)

    ★ 3↓ 2.1K/wkLast active Oct 22, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2

  7. 7
    MinerU Open MCP

    opendatalab

    Parse PDFs, images, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, html into Markdown using MinerU API.

    • Open source (Apache-2.0)

    ★ 229↓ 471/wkLast active Sep 22, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2

  8. 8
    Document Scanner

    GuardBee

    Finds PII and credentials in PDFs, screenshots and scanned documents

    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (MIT)

    ★ 1↓ 1.1K/wkLast active Oct 22, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2

  9. 9
    AILANG Parse

    sunholo-data

    Deterministic DOCX/PPTX/XLSX/PDF parser: track changes, comments, headers, footers, merged cells.

    • Runs locally or as a remote server
    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (Apache-2.0)

    ↓ 1.5K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor +2

  10. 10
    docling.rs

    docling-project

    Documents to Markdown for agents: PDF layout, tables and OCR, Office, HTML, scans.

    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (MIT)

    ★ 111↓ 1.3K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2

  11. 11
    Pdfedit MCP

    zp130221

    Edit text inside existing PDFs: replace, delete, redact, insert, fill forms; original fonts kept.

    • Runs locally or as a remote server
    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (MIT)

    ↓ 1.2K/wkLast active Oct 21, 2026Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor +2

  12. 12
    Browserless

    browserless.ioOfficial

    Official Browserless MCP server: browser automation, scraping, screenshots and PDFs for AI agents.

    • Published by the vendor
    • Runs locally or as a remote server
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 8↓ 1.8K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor +2

  13. 13
    Presio

    presio.xyzOfficial

    Present PDFs from the browser: upload to start a slideshow or validate Presio sidecars.

    • Published by the vendor
    • Remote server, no local install
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 40Last active Oct 23, 2026Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf

  14. 14
    Zoteus

    oscardvs

    Zotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.

    • Runs locally or as a remote server
    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (MIT)

    ★ 62↓ 275/wkLast active Oct 19, 2026Local (stdio), Remote (HTTP)Claude Code, VS Code, Codex, Cursor +2

  15. 15
    RTFM

    roomi-fields

    Local retrieval for AI agents: index code, docs, PDFs, data in SQLite; 24 parsers, served.

    • Active in the last 30 days
    • Open source (MIT)

    ★ 27↓ 538/wkLast active Oct 22, 2026Local (stdio)Claude Code, Codex, VS Code, Cursor +2

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