⚡ Pulse Score 89/100
PDF.ai — Structured Financial, Contract & Academic PDF Extraction MCP
Extract tables, line-item invoices, legal clauses, and page-cited answers from complex multi-hundred-page PDF documents via Streamable HTTP MCP.
⚡ 1-Click Agent & Developer Install
Zero Auth · Ready for Grok Bot, Claude Code & Cursorclaude mcp add --transport http pdf-ai https://pdf.ai/mcp
Copy-Paste System Prompt / Routine Blueprint:
Connect to the PDF.ai — Structured Financial, Contract & Academic PDF Extraction MCP (pdf-ai) MCP server using `claude mcp add --transport http pdf-ai https://pdf.ai/mcp`. First run a read-only discovery check invoking `pdf_upload_and_index` to verify connectivity and credentials, then summarize the structured response and ask before executing any state-modifying tool calls.
Synthesized Engineering Blueprint & Setup Guide
### Server Architecture & Capability Summary
**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.
Extract tables, line-item invoices, legal clauses, and page-cited answers from complex multi-hundred-page PDF documents via Streamable HTTP MCP.
### 1-Click CLI Installation
Run the command below to register `pdf-ai` in Claude Code or your MCP client:
```bash
claude mcp add --transport http pdf-ai https://pdf.ai/mcp
```
### Standard `mcpServers` JSON Configuration (`.cursor/mcp.json` / `claude_desktop_config.json`)
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"pdf-ai": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://pdf.ai/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer ${API_KEY}"
}
}
}
}
```
### Exposed MCP Tools
- `pdf_upload_and_index` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `pdf-ai`.
- `pdf_query_with_page_citations` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `pdf-ai`.
- `pdf_extract_tables_json` — Deterministic JSON-RPC 2.0 tool exposed by `pdf-ai`.
### Authentication & Environment Variables
- **Transport Protocol:** `streamable-http`
- **Auth Mechanism:** `api_key`
- `PDFAI_API_KEY`: `pdfai_live_token`
- **Documentation / Source:** [https://pdf.ai](https://pdf.ai)
Tags: #pdf-ai#streamable-http#research#mcp-server#pdf-upload-and-index#pdf-query-with-page-citations
✓ CERTIFIED X BUILDER PORTFOLIO
More Capabilities Curated from @simonw
Related Verified Capabilities
Explore Research & Intel → MCP Server ★ Featured Partner ✓ Claimed
⚡ 98
MCP Server ★ Featured Partner ✓ Claimed
⚡ 97
TranscriptAPI — Instant YouTube & Video Transcripts MCP Server
MCP Server ★ Featured Partner ✓ Claimed
⚡ 96
StayingAPI — Real-Time Hotel & Short-Term Stay Availability MCP
MCP Server ★ Featured Partner ✓ Claimed
⚡ 95
AdWhispr MCP — Autonomous Google, Meta & TikTok Ads Intelligence
Grok Template ✓ Claimed
⚡ 95
Devil's Advocate — Architecture RFC & Investment Thesis Red-Teamer
Grok Template ✓ Claimed
⚡ 93