No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →
by Open-Document-Alliance · MCP Server · ★ 159
Last updated: · Indexed by AgentSkillsHub · Auto-synced every 8h
🔒 Is PDF-Tools safe to install? View the security audit →
PDF Tools for Claude Desktop and Local MCP Hosts The local PDF workflow for Claude Desktop and MCP hosts: fill, sign, merge, split, extract, render, and analyze PDFs with local file operations. Instead of just opening a PDF, PDF Tools lets Claude fetch PDF URLs to your machine, inspect documents visually, fill forms, save reusable profiles, add signature/date zones, merge and split files, reorganize pages visually, extract structured data, and return document content to your chosen MCP host for analysis. This package targets Claude Desktop and other local MCP hosts today. It does not yet include a remote connector for Claude Cowork / web-hosted Claude. Install Claude Desktop Download the latest from Releases Double-click the file to install it in Claude Desktop The extension is also available in the Claude Extensions directory. Claude Desktop settings include an Allowed PDF Directories field. By default, PDF Tools can access , , and . Add any other folder you want Claude to use before asking it to read, fill, sign, merge, or save PDFs there. Saved profiles and signatures live in the extension's private local store and do not need to be added manually.
| Stars | 159 |
| Forks | 25 |
| Language | JavaScript |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 69.8563666346298/100 |
| Open Issues | 16 |
| Last Updated | 2026-10-02 |
| Created | 2025-06-26 |
| Platforms | claude-code, mcp, node |
| Est. Tokens | ~15k |
These tools work well together with PDF-Tools for enhanced workflows:
Looking for a PDF-Tools alternative? If you're comparing PDF-Tools with other mcp server tools, these 6 projects are the closest alternatives on Agent Skills Hub — ranked by topic overlap, star count, and community traction.
MCP Server for Tree-sitter
A Model Context Protocol Server for MongoDB
Notion MCP server for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT & Claude Desktop. Connect AI agents to Notion via Model Context
MCP server that lets Claude Code and other AI agents read and search large PDFs, one file or a whole folder: a
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables Claude Desktop to check domain availability across 50+ TLDs
MaverickMCP - Personal Stock Analysis MCP Server
Explore other popular mcp server tools:
PDF-Tools is Fill, sign, merge, split, and extract PDFs from Claude Desktop and other MCP hosts. Maintained by the Open Document Alliance.. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 159 GitHub stars.
PDF-Tools is primarily written in JavaScript. It covers topics such as claude, claude-desktop, electronic-signature.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the PDF-Tools GitHub repository at github.com/Open-Document-Alliance/PDF-Tools. The project has 159 stars and 25 forks, indicating an active community.
PDF-Tools is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
The top alternatives to PDF-Tools on Agent Skills Hub include mcp-server-tree-sitter, mcp-mongo-server, notion-mcp-server. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.
Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
Sources & who's responsible: