Florence-2 MCP Server

An MCP server for processing images using Florence-2.

Installation

For Claude Desktop

To configure this server for Claude Desktop, edit the claude_desktop_config.json file with the following entry under mcpServers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "florence-2": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "git+https://github.com/jkawamoto/mcp-florence2",
        "mcp-florence2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

After editing, restart the application. For more information, see: For Claude Desktop Users - Model Context Protocol.

For Goose CLI

To enable the Bear extension in Goose CLI, edit the configuration file ~/.config/goose/config.yaml to include the following entry:

extensions:
  bear:
    name: Florence-2
    cmd: uvx
    args: [--from, git+https://github.com/jkawamoto/mcp-florence2, mcp-florence2]
    enabled: true
    type: stdio

For Goose Desktop

Add a new extension with the following settings:

Type: Standard IO
ID: florence-2
Name: Florence-2
Description: An MCP server for processing images using Florence-2
Command: uvx --from git+https://github.com/jkawamoto/mcp-florence2 mcp-florence2

For more details on configuring MCP servers in Goose Desktop, refer to the documentation: Using Extensions - MCP Servers.

Tools

ocr

Performs Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on the provided image file paths. Automatically converts images to RGB format and extracts the recognized text.

Arguments:

file_paths: A list of file paths to the image files to be processed.

caption

Generates detailed and descriptive captions for the provided image file paths. Captions are generated using advanced image recognition techniques.

Arguments:

file_paths: A list of file paths to the image files to be processed.

License

This application is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.