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  "name": "PDF.ai — Structured Financial, Contract & Academic PDF Extraction MCP",
  "tagline": "Extract tables, line-item invoices, legal clauses, and page-cited answers from complex multi-hundred-page PDF documents via Streamable HTTP MCP.",
  "description_md": "### Server Architecture & Capability Summary\n**PDF.ai — Structured Financial, Contract & Academic PDF Extraction MCP** (`pdf-ai`) is a verified **STREAMABLE-HTTP** Model Context Protocol (MCP) server curated with **@simonw** for Grok Bot, Claude Code, and Cursor.\n\nExtract tables, line-item invoices, legal clauses, and page-cited answers from complex multi-hundred-page PDF documents via Streamable HTTP MCP.\n\n### 1-Click CLI Installation\nRun the command below to register `pdf-ai` in Claude Code or your MCP client:\n```bash\nclaude mcp add --transport http pdf-ai https://pdf.ai/mcp\n```\n\n### Standard `mcpServers` JSON Configuration (`.cursor/mcp.json` / `claude_desktop_config.json`)\n```json\n{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"pdf-ai\": {\n      \"type\": \"http\",\n      \"url\": \"https://pdf.ai/mcp\",\n      \"headers\": {\n        \"Authorization\": \"Bearer ${API_KEY}\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}\n```\n\n### Exposed MCP Tools\n- `pdf_upload_and_index` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `pdf-ai`.\n- `pdf_query_with_page_citations` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `pdf-ai`.\n- `pdf_extract_tables_json` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `pdf-ai`.\n\n### Authentication & Environment Variables\n- **Transport Protocol:** `streamable-http`\n- **Auth Mechanism:** `api_key`\n- `PDFAI_API_KEY`: `pdfai_live_token`\n- **Documentation / Source:** [https://pdf.ai](https://pdf.ai)\n",
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  "title": "PDF.ai — Structured Financial, Contract & Academic PDF Extraction MCP",
  "description": "Extract tables, line-item invoices, legal clauses, and page-cited answers from complex multi-hundred-page PDF documents via Streamable HTTP MCP.",
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