anymd MCP Server: Read Any Document in Claude, Cursor and More

• Turns a file, web page or folder into Markdown

  Converts PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, CSV, EPUB, HTML, web pages, images and audio or video into Markdown with page markers. Long files stop at a token limit and give a cursor to continue; you can pick pages. Images in documents are saved to the anymd cache folder.

  Try: “Read pages 1 to 5 of ~/Documents/report.pdf and summarize the findings.”

  Runs code · read

• Finds text across files, folders and web pages

  Looks for a phrase across one file, many files, whole folders or URLs in any supported format, and returns each hit with its page and a snippet. If nothing matches exactly, it falls back to ranked passages.

  Try: “Search ~/Contracts for "indemnification" in PDF files only.”

  Network · search

• Shows a document heading tree

  Returns a document structure with section ids and page, slide or chapter ranges, so the assistant can open one section instead of the whole file.

  Try: “Show me the outline of this 200-page report.”

  Read · outline

• Digs into a PDF: pages, regions, OCR, compare

  Gives page facts, renders pages as images, crops regions, runs OCR or a vision provider you configure, returns structured JSON with geometry, and compares two PDFs. Video timelines, frame rendering and quote checking are anymd Pro features.

  Try: “Compare the old and new versions of the contract PDF and list the changed pages.”

  Runs code · inspect

Watch out for

• It can open any file you can read

  Without --allow-dir, the read, search and inspect tools accept any local path. Add --allow-dir=/path/to/docs to the server command to confine it to one folder. github.com

• It fetches web addresses you give it

  read and search accept URLs and fetch them. The README says private and loopback addresses are blocked and redirects are rechecked, but earlier versions had bypasses (see advisories). github.com

• It runs tesseract, ffmpeg and ffprobe if installed

  These optional programs run without a shell, with a timeout and an output cap, for OCR, subtitles and transcripts. Skip installing them if you do not need images or video. github.com

• Embedded images are saved to a cache folder

  Pictures from documents are written only to anymd cache directory, set by ANYMD_CACHE_DIR or the platform default, never next to your files. github.com

• Pro features and hosted mode are separate

  anymd Pro (video timelines, quote checking) is a paid add-on. The hosted Sylphx AI parse service is billed per page; the local binary does not use it. github.com

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