Document Reading and Converter Tool

The goal is to have a tool that can read and edit files, using Cursor or Claude Desktop.

The filesystem MCP already allows reading, writing and editing documents, but is limited in that it cannot:

Read pdfs or docx files
Reads the full document, which can cause context overflow

To address these issues, we create:

A fresh doc-reading-mcp mcp service allowing for document conversions between pdf, docx and markdown.

Features

PDF to Markdown conversion using marker-pdf
DOCX to Markdown conversion using pandoc
Markdown to DOCX conversion using pandoc
Markdown to PDF conversion using pandoc

Prerequisites

Python 3.10 or higher
[pandoc] (https://pandoc.org/installing.html) installed on your system
[uv] (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) for Python package management

Installation

uv add doc-reading-mcp

Or install directly from the source:

uv add git+https://github.com/mffrydman/doc-reading-mcp.git

Usage

Run as a standalone server

uv run mcp install -m doc_reading_mcp

Or run directly:

uv run -m doc_reading_mcp

Use with MCP Inspector

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx run -m doc_reading_mcp

Configure in Claude Desktop, Cursor or Windsurf

Add this to your MCP Configuration:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "doc-reading-mcp": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "doc-reading-mcp",
            ]
        }
    }
}

Run in Cursor/Windsurf/Claude using the following configuration:

    "doc-reading-mcp": {
        "command": "uv",
        "args": [
            "--directory",
            "/absolute/path/to/mffrydman/doc-reading-mcp",
            "run",
            "-m",
            "doc_reading_mcp"
        ]
    }

Replace

/absolute/path/to/ with the actual path on your system.