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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.
    39 npm
    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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    Papers by Ouroboros Apps (https://ouroborosapps.com). Research paper search with real citations from OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Crossref, and arXiv: find papers, fetch abstracts, follow citations, and format references. Connect by pasting https://papers-mcp.vercel.app/mcp into Claude, Cursor, Grok, or ChatGPT developer mode (OAuth). Docs: https://ouroborosapps.com/docs/papers
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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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    Enables searching and reading of AI/ML papers from conference proceedings and arxiv, with tools for full-text search, table of contents, and content grep.
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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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    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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    Exposes semantic search over a folder of indexed PDF guides as a tool that Claude Code or any MCP client can call. Returns the closest matching passages with relevance scores, source file and page citations, so the client can answer questions about the guides while knowing when nothing relevant was found.
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    Provides Baidu hot search and Bilibili trending video data for Claude and Cherry Studio, supporting retrieval, search, and cache management.
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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.
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    Enables agents to search local component-manual corpora via hybrid semantic, full-text, and substring retrieval with table recognition and OCR fallback for scanned pages. Provides tools for literal/regex grepping, reading single or multiple pages, navigating bookmarks and outlines, listing categories and indexed files, and checking index and dependency status.
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    Korean-content MCP that consolidates real-time trends from Naver, Daum, Google, YouTube, and Zum, includes a 100+ Korean holiday database, and provides a viral-score predictor for content optimization.
    64 npm
    MIT