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Enables extraction of recipes from PDFs or JPG files and conversion into structured HTML, with interactive region selection and OCR via a web GUI.

The local PDF workflow for Claude Desktop and MCP hosts: fill, sign, merge, split, extract, and analyze PDFs without sending files to a web app.

An MCP server that converts and processes document formats such as DOCX and PDF into Markdown, enabling AI assistants to work with document contents.

Enables AI assistants to convert and process various document formats through an MCP server interface.

Enables natural language interaction with Obsidian vaults through an MCP server, providing hybrid search, file management, and AI-powered analysis.

Enables AI agents to perform local video, audio, and file operations inside an isolated workspace, including cutting/concat videos, extracting audio, transcribing, and managing files, with typed responses and background job support.

MCP server for file operations with non-UTF-8/Unicode encoding: Cyrillic, CP1251, CP1252, ISO-8859, KOI8 auto-detection

Enables web ChatGPT to drive durable, sandboxed Claude Code sessions on a local Mac, with controlled read, modify, verify, and recover operations via six session control tools.

MCP server wrapping DeepSeek's agent harness tools into minimal/standard modes, enabling persistent shell, file editing, search, job management, and more via natural language.

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.

Enables AI assistants to perform controlled Linux system administration tasks like reading logs, managing services, cron jobs, WordPress, and executing sandboxed Python code, with strict security constraints.

MCP server for accurately reading and writing Excel .xlsx files while preserving structure, styles, and formulas. Provides tools for inspecting, editing, and aggregating spreadsheet data, with optional LibreOffice recalculation.

Diablo II Resurrected modding toolkit — character builder, mod build/deploy pipeline, save inspector, CASC reader, and MCP server for Claude/Codex/AI integration. Linux/Steam Deck.

Enables AI agents to explore, analyze, and search file systems, with tools for directory trees, file statistics, duplicate detection, code counting, and multi-criteria file search.

Enables comprehensive management of Obsidian vaults with full CRUD operations, advanced search, link/tag extraction, backlinks discovery, frontmatter editing, and template-based note creation through natural language.

Enables validating CSV structure, checking simple schemas, converting between CSV and JSON, sampling rows, and finding duplicate keys on local files. All processing stays local, so no user data is ever uploaded.

mcp using PyPDF2 to: • merge-pdfs • extract-pages • search-pdfs • merge-pdfs-ordered (merge in user spec. order) • find-related-pdfs (regex extracted text for related PDF files)

Provides web automation utilities, including taking Camofox browser tab screenshots and saving them directly to local files.

A comprehensive MCP server with 30+ custom tools organized into categories: date/time operations, file management, system information, text processing, and web operations. Enables async communication with robust error handling and flexible CLI integration.

A comprehensive MCP server for developers providing file operations, shell execution, git integration, and smart caching to enhance AI-assisted development.