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    Enables agents to search, analyze, and explore arXiv academic papers with advanced multi-field search, author lookup, category browsing, citation extraction, and bibliography export.
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    Enables PDF processing and analysis including text extraction, metadata retrieval, search, page manipulation, splitting/merging, conversion to images, and form handling.
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    An MCP server for reading, rendering, and searching PDF files, specifically optimized for LLMs to extract text, tables, and technical diagrams. It enables metadata retrieval, multi-format text extraction, and page-to-image rendering using PyMuPDF.
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    A comprehensive tool server for reading, merging, and extracting content from PDF files via local paths or direct URLs. It enables metadata retrieval, regex searching, and page-specific text extraction with built-in caching and workspace-restricted security.
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    A server that provides tools for reading and processing PDF documents, allowing users to list available PDFs and extract their content in Markdown format.
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    A local MCP server that extracts text-layer content from PDF files, enabling AI agents to inspect, extract text, outlines, and page content.
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    This server converts PDFs to markdown with intelligent academic paper detection and dual processing engines (marker-pdf for academic content, PyMuPDF for general documents), supporting URL and local file handling, page extraction, batch processing, and PDF link crawling for Claude Code analysis.
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    An MCP server for local PDF inspection that classifies, searches, extracts text and tables without uploading documents or relying on OCR, surfacing reliability warnings for garbled or scanned content.
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    MIT
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    MCP server for PDF manipulation — create PDFs from Markdown with tables and formatting, fill forms, merge, split, encrypt, add QR codes, and more. 16 tools, zero external binaries, TypeScript-native. Install with npx -y @aryanbv/pdf-toolkit-mcp.
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    This MCP server enables AI agents to view PDFs as accessible HTML with bounding-box citations, and provides tools for layout-aware parsing, schema extraction, cross-document Q&A, and PDF rendering.
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    MIT