PDF Toolkit MCP server

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pdf-suite-mcp

A comprehensive MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for PDF operations. 37 tools for reading, searching, creating, merging, splitting, watermarking, stamping, form filling, redacting, annotating, comparing, optimizing, and more.

Built on open-source libraries — not affiliated with Adobe. Uses pdf-lib for PDF manipulation and unpdf (Mozilla pdf.js) for text extraction.

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18 (tested on Node 18, 20, 22, 24)
• npm or compatible package manager

Installation

git clone https://github.com/beepboop2025/pdf-suite-mcp.git
cd pdf-suite-mcp
npm install
npm run build

Configuration

Claude Code (one line, no clone)

claude mcp add pdf-suite -- npx -y pdf-suite-mcp

Any MCP client

Add to your client's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf-suite": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "pdf-suite-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

From a local clone

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdf-suite": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/pdf-suite-mcp/dist/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

Tools Overview

Tool Reference

Reading

pdfreadtext — Extract text from all or specific pages.

• filePath (string, required) — PDF path
• pages (number[], optional) — Page numbers to extract (1-indexed). Returns per-page text with headers.

pdfinfo** — Page count, file size, all metadata, form field count, page dimensions (pts + inches), rotation, PDF version.

• filePath (string, required) — PDF path
• password (string, optional) — For encrypted PDFs

Searching

pdfsearch** — Full-text search across all pages. Returns matches with page numbers and surrounding context.

• filePath (string, required) — PDF path
• query (string, required) — Text or regex pattern
• caseSensitive (boolean, default: false)
• regex (boolean, default: false) — Treat query as regex
• contextChars (number, default: 60) — Characters of context around each match

pdfcompare** — Compare text content of two PDFs page by page. Reports identical/different pages with word-level change summary.

• filePath1, filePath2 (strings, required)

Creating

pdfcreate** — Create a PDF from text with auto word-wrapping, pagination, and headings.

• outputPath, content (required) — Lines starting with # render as bold headings
• fontSize (default: 12), margin (50), lineSpacing (1.4)
• pageSize: A4, Letter, Legal, A3, A5
• font: Helvetica, TimesRoman, Courier
• title, author (optional metadata)

pdfimagestopdf** — Convert PNG/JPG images to a PDF, one per page.

• imagePaths (string[], required), outputPath (required)
• pageSize: A4, Letter, Legal, FitImage (default: A4)
• margin (default: 0) — Padding around image

Manipulating

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.