transkribus for VS Code

io.github.lazyants/transkribus

Transkribus REST and Processing APIs — collections, HTR/OCR; default v1, optional v2 beta.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:npm

Install transkribus in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "transkribus-user",
      "description": "TRANSKRIBUS_USER",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "transkribus-password",
      "description": "TRANSKRIBUS_PASSWORD",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "transkribus-session-id",
      "description": "TRANSKRIBUS_SESSION_ID",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "transkribus-access-token",
      "description": "TRANSKRIBUS_ACCESS_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "transkribus-keyring-service",
      "description": "TRANSKRIBUS_KEYRING_SERVICE",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "transkribus": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@lazyants/transkribus-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TRANSKRIBUS_USER": "${input:transkribus-user}",
        "TRANSKRIBUS_PASSWORD": "${input:transkribus-password}",
        "TRANSKRIBUS_SESSION_ID": "${input:transkribus-session-id}",
        "TRANSKRIBUS_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${input:transkribus-access-token}",
        "TRANSKRIBUS_KEYRING_SERVICE": "${input:transkribus-keyring-service}"
      }
    }
  }
}

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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