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    MCP bridge for PDF Content Search — full-text PDF search with Apple Vision OCR across thousands of documents in under a second from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client. Advanced filters (date, category, sender, amount), wildcards, boolean operators. Bridge open-source (MIT), PDF Content Search app is commercial with free iOS+Android companion scanner apps.
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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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    Apache 2.0
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    MCP server for scientific grounding: search and discover open-access research papers across arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed, and Semantic Scholar, and retrieve references/citations from paywalled journals via public DOI/abstract metadata.
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    A low-token human-AI co-reading MCP tool that imports local EPUB/TXT/Markdown books into chunks, enabling AI to read only relevant fragments and write co-reading results to long-term reading notes and progress files.
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    MIT
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    A custom MCP tool that integrates Perplexity AI's API with Claude Desktop, allowing Claude to perform web-based research and provide answers with citations.
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    Unified academic paper search MCP server integrating OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, and arXiv APIs, enabling Claude to search and analyze over 500 million scholarly papers.
    MIT
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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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    A local-first MCP server that ingests PDFs, extracts structure, and provides semantic search and sequential navigation tools for AI clients to query and learn from documents.
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    MIT
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    An MCP server for searching and downloading books from Library Genesis, supporting EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and more through natural language queries.
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    MCP server for reading OPC events from the OPC one-person company tool station via personal API key. It provides an opc_list_events tool to fetch event lists, designed for use with Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Cline.
    MIT