PDF Card MCP
PDF Card MCP is a local-first MCP server and CLI for turning dense local PDFs into portable, source-linked HTML readers. An MCP host can ask it to convert a PDF path, validate notes/highlights, or publish a static annotated reader bundle. The converter preserves source text, renders source pages for verification, crops detected tables, figures, and display formulas as images, derives safe reader styling from the original PDF palette, and writes a standalone HTML file that can be moved across devices without losing assets.
Default conversion runs locally and does not require a hosted service. Optional MCP sampling is deliberately bounded: the host model may choose validated style tokens or suggest card-boundary polish operations, but raw CSS and source-text rewrites are rejected.
The default reader is designed for comfortable reading: large type, small cards, search, section navigation, next/previous controls, keyboard navigation, a font-size slider, and source-page previews.
PDF Card MCP is meant for PDFs you actually need to read, cite, or inspect. It turns long documents into smaller source-linked cards, keeps tables/figures/formulas as faithful image crops, and lets you export your own notes and highlights as Markdown.






