Is io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp safe to use?

io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. Licensed under AGPL-3.0.

How do I install io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp?

io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp do?

io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp provides 9 tools: tables, blocks, advice, Tools, Install and 4 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp?

io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and http transport.

Is io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp actively maintained?

io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp is actively maintained - last commit was 3 days ago.

io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp

pdfluent-mcp

Read, search and fill PDFs as markdown, text, tables, forms. Your documents stay on your machine.

9 tools GitHub PyPI

No known CVEs

AGPL-3.0 license

Actively maintained

Last commit 3d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, http

9 tools · ~344 tok

Grade A · 0.2% of 200K ctx

MCPpedia last refreshed this data 1d ago

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io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp is an MCP server that read, search and fill PDFs as markdown, text, tables, forms. Your documents stay on your machine. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio and http, requires no API key, and scores 86/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients - only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdfluent": {
      "args": [
        "pdfluent-mcp",
        "--root",
        "/path/to/documents"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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What io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp does

Read, search and fill PDFs as markdown, text, tables, forms. Your documents stay on your machine.

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Is io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp safe to use?: io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. Licensed under AGPL-3.0.
How do I install io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp?: io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp do?: io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp provides 9 tools: tables, blocks, advice, Tools, Install and 4 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp?: io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and http transport.
Is io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp actively maintained?: io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp is actively maintained - last commit was 3 days ago.

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Writing

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients - only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdfluent": {
      "args": [
        "pdfluent-mcp",
        "--root",
        "/path/to/documents"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

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What io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp does

Read, search and fill PDFs as markdown, text, tables, forms. Your documents stay on your machine.

Test This Server

This server supports HTTP transport. Be the first to test it - help the community know if it works.

README

pdfluent-mcp

An MCP server for PDFluent. It lets Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and any other MCP client read a local PDF as markdown, plain text, tables or positioned blocks, look up its metadata, search it, and fill its form fields into a new file.

It runs over stdio, one process per client, on the pdfluent Python package. Your documents stay on your machine. The server reads and writes only inside the directories you allow. The balanced quality tier needs model files; pdfluent models install downloads them once. Your documents are never uploaded.

Tools

Tool	Returns
`extract_markdown(path, pages?, quality?)`	The document as markdown in reading order: headings, list items and tables. Running heads and page numbers are left out. `quality` is `fast` (default) or `balanced`.
`extract_text(path, pages?)`	The plain text layer, page by page, each page behind `<!-- page N -->`.
`extract_tables(path, pages?)`	`tables`: one entry per table with `page`, `rows` (lists of cell strings) and `header_rows`.
`extract_blocks(path, pages?, include_furniture?)`	`blocks`: each with `kind`, `text`, `page`, `bbox` and `confidence`, plus `level`, `ordinal` or table-cell position where they apply. `pages_needing_vision`: the pages whose text layer is missing.
`get_metadata(path)`	Page count, title, author, dates, PDF version, encryption, whether the document has form fields, how many signatures and bookmarks it has, and which pages have no text layer.
`search(path, query)`	The pages that mention `query`, with up to three snippets per page.
`list_form_fields(path)`	Every form field with `name`, `type`, `value` and `page`.
`fill_form(path, values, out_path, overwrite?)`	Fills the named fields and writes a new file at `out_path`. The input is never changed; an existing `out_path` is refused unless `overwrite` is true, and a symbolic link there is always refused.
`vision_advice(path)`	`advice`: one entry per page with `needs_vision` and its reasons.

Page numbers are 0-based in every argument and result. confidence is the probability of the learned model that decided a block's kind; it is null where no model decided it, and null means unknown, not low.

Install

Needs Python 3.10 or later and uv. uvx downloads the server and pdfluent on first use and caches them.

uvx pdfluent-mcp --root ~/Documents

Or into an environment of your own:

pip install pdfluent-mcp
pdfluent-mcp --root ~/Documents

Allowed roots

The server touches nothing outside its roots. Give them with --root (repeat for more than one), with PDFLUENT_MCP_ROOTS (:-separated, ; on Windows), or let the client offer them: Claude Code sends its working directory and --add-dir directories as MCP roots. A server with no root from any of these answers every call with a message saying so. Symlinks are resolved before the check, so a link inside a root cannot point outside it.

A root is as wide as the directory it names. A client that offers /, ~ or a drive as an MCP root widens the server to everything the user can read; if that is not what you want, start the server with --root on the folder your PDFs live in and keep the client's roots narrow.

Three more limits: --max-pages (default 200) is how many pages one call returns, so a long document is read in windows through pages (the engine still parses the whole document for every window; the cap bounds the output, not the work); --max-bytes (default 100 MiB) is the largest document the server opens; --max-output-chars (default 200000) is the longest result one call returns, after which it is cut and says so. All three also read from PDFLUENT_MCP_MAX_PAGES, `PDFLUENT

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Why this score

Five weighted categories - click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

86/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−14

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked pdfluent-mcp against OSV.dev.

Inventory

Tools (9)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~344 tokens total

Community

Reviews

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Have you used this server?

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How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp safe to use?: io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. Licensed under AGPL-3.0.
How do I install io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp?: io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp do?: io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp provides 9 tools: tables, blocks, advice, Tools, Install and 4 more. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp?: io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and http transport.
Is io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp actively maintained?: io.github.pdfluent/pdfluent-mcp is actively maintained - last commit was 3 days ago.