Skip to main content
Glama
91,043 servers. Updated
20 Best PDF MCP Servers: compared and ranked, September 2026Ranked from 1,504 matching servers on stars, growth, downloads and maintenance. Updated .

Matching MCP tools:

Matching MCP Connectors:

"Methods for Reading PDF Files" matching MCP servers:

GET /v1/servers – MCP directory API reference
  • A
    license
    A
    quality
    C
    maintenance
    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.
    5
    78
    MIT
  • A
    license
    A
    quality
    C
    maintenance
    Enables structured extraction of methods and reproducibility heuristics from academic papers, allowing AI agents to obtain metadata, full text, structured methods, code repository discovery, and a no-clone reproducibility verdict from a paper URL.
    8
    66 PyPI
    MIT
  • A
    license
    A
    quality
    D
    maintenance
    An MCP server that enables AI assistants to read, search, and analyze PDF files from local paths or URLs. It provides tools for extracting specific page ranges, searching for terms, and retrieving document metadata.
    4
    22 npm
    1
    MIT
  • A
    license
    A
    quality
    C
    maintenance
    A Model Context Protocol server that enables the extraction of text, metadata, and embedded images from PDF files. It provides tools for searching text with context, reading specific pages, and counting total pages within a document.
    7
    14 npm
    1
    MIT
  • F
    license
    A
    quality
    D
    maintenance
    A server designed for processing PDF documents, enabling text extraction, table data retrieval, and metadata collection from local files. It allows users to scan directories for PDFs and read specific pages, specifically optimized for thesis literature analysis.
    3
    -
  • A
    license
    Not graded
    quality
    D
    maintenance
    Provides MCP tool adapters for Bioconductor methods like limma, DESeq2, and fgsea, enabling statistical analysis of omics data through containerized R execution. It serves as a bridge between MCP clients and bioinformatics tools for reproducible research workflows.
    Apache 2.0
  • F
    license
    Not graded
    quality
    D
    maintenance
    Enables processing and analysis of large PDF files through text extraction, search functionality, and intelligent chunking strategies. Provides comprehensive PDF operations including metadata retrieval, page-range text extraction, and content search with contextual results.
    -
  • A
    license
    A
    quality
    A
    maintenance
    Multi-source academic paper search, citation graph exploration, and PDF download as an MCP server, designed for LLM agents doing research.
    6
    118 PyPI
    3
    Apache 2.0
  • A
    license
    A
    quality
    C
    maintenance
    Real human judgment as agent tools -- an AI agent can ask a question and get back a structured, schema-validated JSON answer from a real quality-scored human. 16 response types (yes/no, ratings, rankings, A/B tests, sentiment, image/video/audio review, voice/video/photo capture). Fully programmatic signup with a $5 free trial credit, no card required.
    7
    57 npm
    MIT
  • F
    license
    A
    quality
    B
    maintenance
    Enables semantic search across personal PDF paper collections with page-level citations, allowing users to query their library from any MCP-capable client.
    9
    -
  • A
    license
    A
    quality
    C
    maintenance
    A Model Context Protocol server for Zotero integration that gives any LLM full access to your Zotero library, including search, organization, DOI-based paper addition, PDF import, full-text reading, and citation injection into Word documents.
    15
    23 npm
    37
    MIT