Laserfiche MCP server

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laserfiche-mcp

Owned by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Laserfiche.

Let Claude (Desktop, Code, or any MCP client) search and read documents in a self-hosted Laserfiche repository — and, if you opt in, change them. The same program is also a command-line tool (ls, cat, search, dedupe, ...) for work that needs no AI at all.

Read-only by default. Writes are off until you set LFREADONLY=false, and destructive actions always need a second confirmation step. Current release: v2.6.2 — see the CHANGELOG.

Quick start

uv tool install laserfiche-mcp   # or run ad hoc: uvx laserfiche-mcp
laserfiche-mcp setup             # asks for your server + account, then tests the connection
laserfiche-mcp ls 1              # list the repository root

Then connect it to Claude. Prefer no terminal? Use the Claude Desktop extension. New to MCP? Read the step-by-step guide (~7 min). Want ready-made prompts and commands? See examples.

What it can do

Once connected, you can ask Claude things like:

• "Which leases mention an unpaid balance, and what do they say?"
• "Summarize the newest document in the Onboarding folder."
• "Are these two scans the same record, or is something different?"
• "Find duplicate invoices under 2023 and tell me how much space they take."
• "Set Status to Approved on these five entries."

Behind that, it can:

Find things

draft the query from your repository's own templates and field names, with automatic repair if Laserfiche rejects it.

• Search with native Laserfiche queries or by name pattern — or let Claude

matching passages (page number plus surrounding text) straight from Laserfiche's OCR index, so most "what does it say about X?" questions are answered without downloading anything.

• Search inside documents, including scans. Full-text search returns the

GIF, WebP) to describe, label and tag them against your own tag and template standard. Images cost tokens, so you're warned of the estimated cost and asked first; for scans of text it tries Laserfiche's OCR before looking at the picture. Optional laserfiche-mcp[images] adds downscaling.

• Look at images. Claude can view picture files in the repository (PNG, JPEG,

Read things

field values, and your repository's field / tag / template / link definitions.

• Browse folders, look up entries by ID or path, and read metadata, template

plain text (Excel and Outlook .msg need pip install 'laserfiche-mcp[office]') — with page ranges for long documents.

• Download files, or extract text — PDF, Word, PowerPoint, email, HTML, RTF and

Analyze

(only files whose sizes match are ever downloaded). From the command line you can also inventory a whole folder tree to CSV.

• Compare two entries' metadata and fields, and find byte-identical duplicates

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.