dsh-document-editor

DSH MCP server for reading, creating, editing, and verifying PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files. The tools use the existing Python libraries and return structured results.

Tools

Edit tools create a sibling *_edited file by default, preserving the source. Pass output_path to choose another destination. Writes replace the destination only after the complete file has been saved successfully.

Related MCP server: Office-MCP-Server

Install

Python 3.10 or newer is required.

pip install -r src\requirements.txt

Add cordis.patch.yml to the DSH profile and set command to the absolute path of the Python interpreter that has these dependencies installed. Restart the profile after changing its MCP configuration. Do not use uv run unless its environment also has the dependencies.

Use

Paths may be absolute or relative to the MCP server's current working directory. Tools create parent folders when writing output files.

Security and privacy

The server runs locally over MCP stdio and makes no network requests. It can read any path passed to a tool, subject to the operating system permissions of the user running it. Read tools return extracted document contents to the connected MCP client, which handles them under its own data policy.

Formats

PDF

create_pdf takes pages: [{content, pagesize?}], with optional title, author, and output_path. Long text flows across as many pages as needed; pagesize accepts A4 or Letter. Chinese text uses ReportLab's built-in STSong CID font.

read_pdf returns metadata and extracted text by page. edit_pdf appends text pages and writes a copy by default. verify_document strictly parses PDFs and reports page and readable-text counts.

{
  "title": "项目报告",
  "author": "张三",
  "pages": [{"content": "中文报告正文。", "pagesize": "A4"}],
  "output_path": "report.pdf"
}

Word

create_word_document accepts paragraphs: [{text, style?}] and tables: [{headers?, rows}]. Heading styles such as heading1 and heading2 are supported.

modify_word_document accepts paragraphs, tables, and table_updates. A paragraph with a zero-based index replaces that paragraph; one without an index is appended. table_updates entries use {table_index, row_index, column_index, text} with zero-based indexes. New tables use {headers?, rows}.

read_word_document returns paragraphs and table cell data.

Excel

create_excel_workbook takes sheets: [{name, headers?, rows?}].

modify_excel_worksheet edits the named sheet (creating it if needed); if omitted, it edits the first sheet. cells maps A1-style addresses to values or formulas, for example {"B2": 12, "C2": "=SUM(A2:B2)"}. rows are appended after existing data; headers, when supplied, update row 1. read_excel_workbook returns cached cell values in rows and formula expressions in a separate formulas map; formulas are not recalculated by openpyxl.

PowerPoint

create_pptx_presentation takes slides: [{layout, title?, content?}]. Layouts include title, title_and_content, section_header, two_content, and blank. Text is added to placeholders when available and to text boxes otherwise.

modify_pptx_presentation takes slide_data. Include a zero-based index to replace that slide's title/content; omit it to append a slide. read_pptx_presentation returns all text shapes without truncation.

Verify

verify_document(input_path) checks PDF parsing or Office package CRC and parser readability. A supported but damaged file returns success: true, valid: false with the error; unsupported extensions and missing files return error.

Check

Run from the plugin directory:

python scripts\test_e2e.py
python scripts\test_encoding.py

test_e2e.py performs an MCP handshake and round-trips the four formats, edits generated files, and calls verification. test_config.py checks a deployment-style launch from outside the plugin directory. To check a specific install, set DOCUMENT_EDITOR_PYTHON, DOCUMENT_EDITOR_SERVER, and DOCUMENT_EDITOR_CWD before running it.

Examples

The validation samples include original and edited PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files created and verified through MCP.

Limits

• PDF creation and editing handle text pages; editing existing page text, forms, annotations, images, and layout is not implemented.

• Word edits target paragraphs and table cells; advanced Word features such as tracked changes and embedded objects are preserved by python-docx only where its format support allows.

• Excel formulas are written and read but not calculated. Existing workbook macros are not supported by .xlsx tools.

• PowerPoint tools edit slide text and create basic text-first slides; they do not render slides or edit charts, media, or complex shape geometry.

• Office rendering can vary between Microsoft Office, WPS, LibreOffice, and Google Docs.

Files

src/server.py          MCP server
src/requirements.txt   Python dependencies
scripts/test_e2e.py    MCP and document round-trip check
scripts/test_encoding.py Chinese stdio round-trip check
cordis.patch.yml       DSH profile entry

MIT License.