pdfintact
Extract tables, text and formulas from PDFs, including scanned pages and broken text layers.
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Install
One-Click Install
Add this to your `claude_desktop_config.json` file:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pdfintact": {
"url": "https://mcp.pdfintact.com/mcp"
}
}
}Remote endpoints
https://mcp.pdfintact.com/mcpstreamable-httpWhat it can do
Tool inventory
Tools (3)
🟢convert_pdf(source, idempotency_key)
Convert a PDF into structured content (tables, charts, formulas, headings, body text) using a two-stage pipeline (layout detection, then a vision-language model) rather than a single VLM call on the raw PDF -- calling a VLM on a raw PDF directly is a known-unreliable pattern for numeric tables. Measured accuracy (500-page real-world benchmark of government/corporate reports, ~51,000 table values checked): tables 95.2% digit-exact, body text 88.8%. This tool reads PDFs a VLM cannot read directly, including scanned pages and PDFs with corrupted/garbled text layers (common in older Japanese academic PDFs). For scanned Japanese documents the numbers hold up (99.4% on the same benchmark). For scanned Arabic, body text does NOT: characters are dropped mid-sentence and quantities can turn into different quantities, so body blocks from scanned Arabic are always flagged confidence:"estimated" -- tables in the same documents stayed exact in our measurement. Strong on Japanese-language documents specifically; the accuracy figures above were measured on Japanese material and are not a claim about every language. Chart values are extracted but are best-effort estimates (about 52% exact match, excluding axis tick labels) and are always flagged confidence:"estimated" in the result -- do not treat estimated chart numbers as authoritative. This is a PAID, ASYNCHRONOUS, per-page-billed operation: credits are reserved from the caller's PDFIntact balance before processing starts, and the response's _meta.credits_remaining shows the balance right after reservation. Processing takes real wall-clock time (roughly 7 seconds/page; a 500-page PDF takes about 42 minutes including a multi-minute cold start), so this tool returns a job_handle immediately without waiting -- call get_result with that job_handle to poll for completion instead of calling convert_pdf again. Always pass idempotency_key; reuse the exact same value if you retry the same request, otherwise retries can double-charge and double-process. Provide the PDF either as a public https URL (source.type="url", up to ~200MB) or inline base64 (source.type="base64", up to ~20MB) -- prefer the URL form for large files. Requires sign-in (OAuth): this session is not authenticated, so calling this tool will fail until the PDFIntact account is connected and authorized.
Input Schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"source": {
"oneOf": [
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"const": "url"
},
"url": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri",
"description": "HTTPS URL to fetch the PDF from"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"url"
]
},
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"const": "base64"
},
"data": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Base64-encoded PDF file contents"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"data"
]
}
]
},
"idempotency_key": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 200,
"description": "Unique key for this request. Reuse the same value on retry of the same PDF to avoid double charging."
}
},
"required": [
"source",
"idempotency_key"
],
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}🟢get_result(job_handle)
Fetch the status and (once finished) the structured result of a job previously created by convert_pdf. Poll this with the job_handle convert_pdf returned until _meta.state is "done" or "failed" -- do not call convert_pdf again while waiting. job_handle is scoped to the account that created it; handles belonging to a different account are rejected as not found. Requires sign-in (OAuth): this session is not authenticated, so calling this tool will fail until the PDFIntact account is connected and authorized.
Input Schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"job_handle": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"description": "The job_handle returned by convert_pdf"
}
},
"required": [
"job_handle"
],
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}🟢get_balance
Check the current PDFIntact credit balance for the authenticated account (1 page = 1 credit), plus the soonest-expiring credit lot. Useful before submitting a large PDF to convert_pdf, or after an insufficient_credits error to see how many credits are needed and get a purchase link. Requires sign-in (OAuth): this session is not authenticated, so calling this tool will fail until the PDFIntact account is connected and authorized.
Input Schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {},
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}Community
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