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Optical Context MCP for VS Code

io.github.chrboebel/optical-context-mcp

Compress OCR-heavy PDFs into dense packed images so agents can work with long visual documents.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install Optical Context MCP in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "optical-context-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "optical-context-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Requires agent mode. MCP: Open User Configuration puts the same block in every workspace. VS Code docs

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