PDF To Text MCP server

by Jim-Panse·io.github.Jim-Panse/pdf-to-text·v0.7.0

Extracts PDF text locally, with macOS PDFKit and Vision OCR fallbacks and optional AI retry.

C55/100grade C

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Release history: 3 versions in the registry since 2026-10-12, latest 2026-10-15, typically one every 3 days.

Runs npx -y @jim-panse/pdf-to-text-mcp on your machine. Read the scan report first; the gateway never runs local packages.

claude mcp add pdf-to-text -- npx -y @jim-panse/pdf-to-text-mcp

Is PDF To Text MCP server safe?: With care: it is graded C, so read the findings first (55/100). Read the PDF To Text safety report
How do I install PDF To Text?: It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop config from the install section.
Does PDF To Text need an API key?: Yes. The registry entry asks for OPENAI_API_KEY.
Is PDF To Text maintained?: The latest release is v0.7.0.
How does PDF To Text compare with other MCP servers?: safety score 55/100 (higher than 10% of 48,255 servers); downloads a week 741 (more than 92% of 12,191 servers with a package). Full comparison.

Local package. It runs on your machine, not through the gateway.

PDF_TO_TEXT_MCP_ROOTRequired existing directory that defines the root-relative filesystem namespace for PDF input and derived text output.
OPENAI_API_KEYsecretOptional secret. Enables one AI extraction retry when local extraction is inadequate; omit for local-only operation.
OPENAI_MODELOptional OpenAI model used only for AI retry. Defaults to gpt-5.4-mini.
AI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENSOptional cap for all AI-generated output tokens, including non-visible reasoning tokens. Integer minimum 800; defaults to 32000.
MAX_PARALLEL_EXTRACTIONSInteger concurrency limit from 1 to 32. Defaults to min(os.availableParallelism(), 4).
EXTRACTION_QUEUE_CAPACITYInteger maximum waiting requests from 0 to 100; zero disables waiting.
EXTRACTION_QUEUE_WAIT_MSMaximum queue wait in milliseconds, integer 1 through 2147483647. Does not limit active work.
WRITE_TEXTOptionally save successful extraction text beside the source PDF.

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