"Tools and applications for reading PDF files" matching MCP servers:

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.

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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.

An MCP server that enables users to read, search, and analyze PDF documents. It provides tools for extracting text, viewing metadata, searching content with context, and generating word statistics.

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)

Enables document conversion between PDF, DOCX, and Markdown formats to facilitate reading and editing complex files in AI tools like Claude Desktop or Cursor. It utilizes marker-pdf and pandoc to provide structured text versions of documents, helping to manage context and support unsupported file types.

A 4-stage reading companion that helps users set reading goals, discover books, track progress, and deepen learning through reflection, integrated with Claude Desktop.

Upload, edit, compress, protect, redact, and compare PDFs with KDAN PDF in Claude and ChatGPT.

A mobile-first AI co-reading MCP server that lets users import novels or comics, sync reading progress with AI, and interact through comments, bookmarks, and notes.

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.

PDF Tools AI - MCP server providing AI-powered tools and automation by MEOK AI Labs

An AI reading companion that curates next books based on the Chicago Plan curriculum and tracks user reading progress with personal tokens. It offers book recommendations, logging, coaching questions, and reading reports.

A local stdio MCP server for managing files on XServer via SFTP, enabling secure file operations, backups, and workspace management for XServer hosting.

A local MCP server for low-token co-reading: import a book, split it into chapter-sized chunks, read it chunk by chunk, and keep notes so a session can resume without re-reading the whole book.

Generates test files locally (images, PDFs, CSVs, corrupted files, etc.) from natural language prompts, with configurable sizes and safety limits.

A lightweight MCP server for basic file operations, enabling reading, writing, and listing files securely via the Model Context Protocol.

A local MCP server that gives Claude a durable reading room for EPUB and plain text books, enabling chunk-by-chunk navigation, annotations, progress tracking, and shared margin cards.

Enables a shared reading room where users and Claude can import EPUB or text books, read chunk-by-chunk, annotate passages, search, track progress, and resume from unread sections.

Enables ChatGPT/Codex to read, search, and edit files in a single allowed folder on Windows through OpenAI Secure MCP Tunnel.

Enables PDF file manipulation including merging, splitting, extracting pages, extracting text, excluding pages, and reordering pages.