papyrio-mcp
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An MCP server for the Papyrio PDF API. Setup for Claude, Cursor and VS Code: papyrio.net/mcp. It lets an
assistant compress, merge, OCR and convert PDFs on your own machine, reading
and writing local files, so multi-step work does not mean uploading and
downloading between every step.
is four tool calls the assistant makes by itself.
Install
Claude Desktop, one click
[Watch: add PDF tools to Claude Desktop in one click (47 s)]
Download papyrio-mcp.mcpb
and double-click it. Claude Desktop opens an install screen; leave the API key
empty for the free guest tier or paste a RapidAPI key (see below). You can
change it later under Settings, Extensions.
By hand, or any other client
Add this to your Claude Desktop config:
macOS ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
Restart Claude Desktop. The tools appear under the connector icon.
API key
The server works without one, metered as ordinary free web traffic: three
operations a day per IP address. Enough to see whether it is useful.
For real use, subscribe on
RapidAPI and pass
the key:
The free RapidAPI tier is 50 requests a month and needs no card.
Tools
Every tool takes absolute paths. output_path is optional and defaults to the
input name with a -papyrio suffix — except webpage_to_pdf, which has no
input file to derive a name from and so requires it.
Adding a tool
Add an entry to src/tools.ts. The MCP tool, its input schema and the HTTP
call are all generated from it.
Testing
Drives all twelve tools over the real MCP protocol against the live API and
checks the returned file's magic bytes, so a JSON error body named .pdf fails
rather than passes. Without a key it runs on the guest tier, where three
operations a day means most cases will hit rate_limit_exceeded.
Develop
Point your config at the local build while working on it:
Privacy: files are sent to the Papyrio API, processed in memory, and discarded
when the response is sent. Nothing is stored.
Licence
MIT