Faceabot PDF MCP

An official MCP server provided by Faceabot that allows AI agents to extract text from any public PDF file page by page, retrieve page counts, and access metadata. It is a free, read-only tool requiring no API key or authentication.

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Endpoint and access

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Vendor evidenceStreamable HTTPNo sign-inEndpoint checked 2026-11-01Operated by Faceabot

MCP endpoint (Streamable HTTP)

https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp

Vendor documentation

What you can do with it

Extract text from public PDFs like papers or invoices
Retrieve PDF metadata and page counts
Parse scanned documents for AI agents

Source and maintenance

Vendor evidenceRegistry 1.0.0

mcp-registry: com.faceabot/pdf@1.0.0 Project website

Protocol and capabilities

Server: faceabot-pdf 1.0.0
MCP protocol: 2025-06-18
Tools: 2 advertised
Resources: Not advertised
Resource templates: Not advertised
Prompts: Not advertised

Server-advertised capabilities

{
  "tools": {
    "listChanged": false
  }
}

Server-provided instructions

Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.

Faceabot PDF: read the text of any public PDF (parse, read, extract text page by page), free, no key. pdf_extract_text {"url":"https://…/file.pdf"} (pages "1-3" optional; start to continue a long text); pdf_info {"url":…} for pages and metadata. Up to 10 MB. Scanned PDFs (images only) have no text: use an OCR tool. Sample: https://pdf.faceabot.com/sample.pdf Part of Faceabot (https://faceabot.com): any other tool: solve_need at https://faceabot.com/api/mcp.

Tools

2 advertised

pdf_extract_text — Extract text from a PDF

Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Reads a PDF from its public https address and returns its text, page by page (parse / read a PDF: invoices, papers, reports, contracts, forms…). Up to 10 MB; use start to read further. Use when: you need the text content of a PDF file. Not for scanned PDFs (images only): those need OCR. Example: {"url":"https://pdf.faceabot.com/sample.pdf"}

pdf_extract_text input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "url"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "examples": [
        "https://pdf.faceabot.com/sample.pdf"
      ],
      "description": "Public https address of the PDF file"
    },
    "pages": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional pages to read, e.g. \"1-3\" or \"2,5\". Default: all"
    },
    "start": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 0,
      "minimum": 0,
      "description": "Character offset to continue a long text"
    },
    "max_chars": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 20000,
      "maximum": 50000,
      "minimum": 500
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

pdf_extract_text annotations

{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

pdf_info — PDF information

Advertised by the server during the last successful anonymous check.

Advertised read-onlyOpen-world

Number of pages, title, author, creation date and whether the PDF has extractable text. Use when: you want to know what a PDF is before reading it. Example: {"url":"https://pdf.faceabot.com/sample.pdf"}

pdf_info input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "url"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "url": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "examples": [
        "https://pdf.faceabot.com/sample.pdf"
      ],
      "description": "Public https address of the PDF file"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

pdf_info annotations

{
  "readOnlyHint": true,
  "openWorldHint": true,
  "idempotentHint": true,
  "destructiveHint": false
}

Prompts

Not advertised

No prompt definitions available.

Resources

Not advertised

No resource definitions available.

30-day availability

Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.

Successful checks: 1 of 1 (100%)
Average latency: 212 ms
95th percentile latency: 212 ms

Maintenance history

Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.

Nov 1, 2026, 8:36 AM UTC · probe · passed · 212 ms · metadata changed · 2 tool(s)

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Claude Code

Run this once in a terminal. It registers the remote server. Use --scope project to write .mcp.json for the repo.

Claude Code configuration

claude mcp add --transport http faceabot-pdf-mcp https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp

Codex

Run this once. Codex stores MCP servers in ~/.codex/config.toml (or .codex/config.toml in a trusted project).

Codex configuration

codex mcp add faceabot-pdf-mcp --url https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp

Cursor

Merge this server into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, then enable faceabot-pdf-mcp in your MCP settings.

Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faceabot-pdf-mcp": {
      "url": "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Cline

Merge this into cline_mcp_settings.json (Cline → MCP Servers → Configure).

Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faceabot-pdf-mcp": {
      "type": "streamableHttp",
      "url": "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp",
      "disabled": false
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Merge this server into .vscode/mcp.json. Use MCP: List Servers to start faceabot-pdf-mcp and inspect its tools.

VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "faceabot-pdf-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Gemini CLI

Run this once. It writes .gemini/settings.json in the current project; pass --scope user for ~/.gemini/settings.json.

Gemini CLI configuration

gemini mcp add --transport http faceabot-pdf-mcp https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp

Claude Desktop

Merge this into claude_desktop_config.json (macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\), then restart Claude Desktop.

Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faceabot-pdf-mcp": {
      "url": "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Merge this into ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json, then refresh MCP in Cascade. Windsurf remote servers use serverUrl, not url.

Windsurf configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "faceabot-pdf-mcp": {
      "serverUrl": "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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