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PDF To Text MCP Server

Name: PDF To Text MCP Server
Author: jim-panse

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

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "jim-panse-pdf-to-txt-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@jim-panse/pdf-to-text-mcp@0.7.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PDF_TO_TEXT_MCP_ROOT": "",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY",
        "OPENAI_MODEL": "",
        "AI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS": "32000",
        "MAX_PARALLEL_EXTRACTIONS": "",
        "EXTRACTION_QUEUE_CAPACITY": "10",
        "EXTRACTION_QUEUE_WAIT_MS": "60000",
        "WRITE_TEXT": "false"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Environment

Name	Required	Notes
PDF_TO_TEXT_MCP_ROOT	Yes	Required existing directory that defines the root-relative filesystem namespace for PDF input and derived text output.
OPENAI_API_KEY	No	Optional secret. Enables one AI extraction retry when local extraction is inadequate; omit for local-only operation. Secret.
OPENAI_MODEL	No	Optional OpenAI model used only for AI retry. Defaults to gpt-5.4-mini.
AI_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS	No	Optional cap for all AI-generated output tokens, including non-visible reasoning tokens. Integer minimum 800; defaults to 32000.
MAX_PARALLEL_EXTRACTIONS	No	Integer concurrency limit from 1 to 32. Defaults to min(os.availableParallelism(), 4).
EXTRACTION_QUEUE_CAPACITY	No	Integer maximum waiting requests from 0 to 100; zero disables waiting.
EXTRACTION_QUEUE_WAIT_MS	No	Maximum queue wait in milliseconds, integer 1 through 2147483647. Does not limit active work.
WRITE_TEXT	No	Optionally save successful extraction text beside the source PDF.

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