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pdf mcp for VS Code

io.github.jztan/pdf-mcp

Agentic RAG over one PDF or a whole folder: hybrid search, selective page reads, tables, OCR.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:pypi

Install pdf mcp in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json 

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pdf-mcp-cache-dir",
      "description": "PDF_MCP_CACHE_DIR",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "pdf-mcp-cache-ttl",
      "description": "PDF_MCP_CACHE_TTL",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "pdf-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pdf-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PDF_MCP_CACHE_DIR": "${input:pdf-mcp-cache-dir}",
        "PDF_MCP_CACHE_TTL": "${input:pdf-mcp-cache-ttl}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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