Anymd

Any file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Office, EPUB, HTML, images. Local Rust MCP server.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

One-click editor setup isn’t available for this listing yet — we don’t have a confirmed install command, and we’d rather show nothing than point your editor at the wrong package or host. Follow the project’s own setup instructions, linked above.

Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

No confirmed setup config for this listing yet. We only publish a config block when the install details come from the project itself — its README, its docs, or a verified owner. We haven’t found those for anymd, and we’d rather show nothing than a guess you’d paste into your client. Follow the project’s own setup instructions for the current steps.

Documentation Overview

anymd

PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB, HTML and web pages, images (OCR), audio and video (metadata, subtitles, transcripts). A fast Rust MCP server and CLI that runs on your machine. No API key.

[![agent-ready 93/100](https://mark.sylphx.com/badge/agent--ready-93%2F100-brightgreen?style=flat-square&labelColor=0a0d07)](https://github.com/SylphxAI/repomap#agent-readiness-score)

Install · Benchmarks · Tools · CLI · Formats · Docs

_{Formerly pdf-reader-mcp. Migrating from pdf-reader-mcp}

Real terminal session: anymd converts a PDF page with its table, searches a folder, reads a spreadsheet, then Claude Code answers from the PDF through the anymd MCP server

_{A real, unedited terminal recording (asciinema + agg, script). The last command is Claude Code answering from the PDF through the anymd MCP server.}

Why anymd

Fast. Native Rust converts in parallel, page by page. On the 19 benchmark documents every tool converted, anymd takes 12.1 s in total; docling 1,723.3 s (143×), markitdown 45.4 s (4×), marker 5,256.3 s (435×).

Accurate. A layout engine rebuilds words from glyph gaps, puts two-column papers in reading order, and recovers tables, including borderless ones. The text stays exactly as printed, with no glued words and no scrambled columns.
Lean on tokens. Pages come back as Markdown with  citation anchors, a small front-matter header, and compact tables. A token budget and a cursor keep large documents within your agent's context.
Every format, one call. One tool reads every format listed below. It also accepts web URLs and whole directories, and search looks across all of them.
Local and private. Nothing is uploaded. OCR and transcripts use local tools you already have (tesseract, ffmpeg, whisper.cpp), and only when they are installed.

Install

Add anymd to every MCP client on your machine (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Gemini CLI) with one command:

Terminal

npx -y @sylphx/anymd setup     # --dry-run to preview, --remove to undo

Or add it by hand: every MCP client runs the same command, npx -y @sylphx/anymd. Node 18+ is the only requirement; npm installs the native binary for your platform.

Claude Code

Terminal

claude mcp add anymd -- npx -y @sylphx/anymd

Or as a plugin, with the anymd skill: /plugin marketplace add SylphxAI/anymd, then /plugin install anymd@anymd.

Codex

bash

codex mcp add anymd -- npx -y @sylphx/anymd

or in ~/.codex/config.toml:

toml

[mcp_servers.anymd]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@sylphx/anymd"]

Cursor

or in .cursor/mcp.json:

config.json

{ "mcpServers": { "anymd": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@sylphx/anymd"] } } }

VS Code

bash

code --add-mcp '{"name":"anymd","command":"npx","args":["-y","@sylphx/anymd"]}'

or in .vscode/mcp.json:

config.json

{ "servers": { "anymd": { "type": "stdio", "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@sylphx/anymd"] } } }

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

config.json

{ "mcpServers": { "anymd": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@sylphx/anymd"] } } }

Windsurf, Zed, Cline, and other clients

Any client that speaks MCP over stdio: command npx, args ["-y", "@sylphx/anymd"]. To keep the server inside one folder, add --allow-dir=/path/to/docs.

CLI only

Terminal

npm install -g @sylphx/anymd     # or run it once with: npx -y @sylphx/anymd <file>

Benchmarks

AgentDocBench is an open benchmark for document → Markdown conversion for agents: license-clean documents in 12 categories (math papers, two-column papers, financial tables, forms, scans, CJK, slides, spreadsheets, Word, EPUB, HTML), scored on verbatim sentences, text F1, reading order, and table cells, with time and output tokens. Every tool runs on the same kind of GitHub-hosted runner (4 CPUs):

	anymd	docling	kreuzberg	unstructured	markitdown	marker	pdftotext
Overall score	96.3	93.0	81.7	81.2	76.8	71.0	42.2
Table cells F1	92.2	89.9	38.4	38.4	57.2	60.9	0.0
Reading order	98.8	94.4	96.8	93.9	85.5	76.8	52.0
Docs converted	38/38	38/38	38/38	38/38	38/38	30/38	23/38
Time, all docs	22.9 s	2,432.4 s	16.0 s	346.5 s	75.6 s	7,104.5 s	0.90 s

The generated leaderboard, per-category scores (including where anymd loses), and method are in the benchmark guide. The corpus, ground truth, adapters, and raw results are in bench/, and the Benchmark workflow reruns everything; new tools can join with a single adapter file.

MCP tools

anymd exposes three tools.

Tool	Use it to	Key arguments
`read`	Turn a file, URL, or folder into Markdown	`source`, `pages` (`"1-5,8"`), `max_tokens` (default 20000), `cursor`, `ocr`, `transcript`, `download_whisper_model`
`search`	Find text across files, folders, and URLs	`query`, `sources`, `mode` (`auto` · `literal` · `ranked`), `glob`, `max_results`
`inspect`	Go deeper on a PDF	`operation`: `render_page`, `extract_regions`, `ocr_pages`, `structure` (JSON with geometry), `compare`, `inspect`

A read answer looks like this:

markdown

---
source: papers/attention.pdf
title: Attention Is All You Need
pages: 15
showing: pages 1-9
---

<!-- page 1 -->

# Attention Is All You Need
…

<!-- page 8 -->

|Model|BLEU EN-DE|BLEU EN-FR|
|-|-|-|
|Transformer (big)|28.4|41.8|
…

<!-- Stopped at the 20000-token budget. Continue with cursor: "10", or pick pages, or raise max_tokens. -->

search answers with one line per hit:

markdown

5 matches for "masked language model" (2 files, 31 sections searched)

### papers/bert.pdf (5)
- p.1: …by using a “**masked language model**” (MLM) pre-training objective, inspired by the Cloze task…
- p.2: …In addition to the **masked language model**, we also use a “next sentence prediction” task…

If nothing matches exactly, search falls back to BM25-ranked passages, so a question like "how does bidirectional pretraining work" still finds the right page.

CLI

The same binary is a command-line converter, like MarkItDown but much faster:

bash

anymd report.pdf > report.md                 # a file
anymd deck.pptx notes.docx budget.xlsx        # several files, each with a header
anymd https://example.com/article            # a web page (main content only)
cat scan.png | anymd - --ocr                 # stdin, with OCR
anymd paper.pdf --pages 1-3 --max-tokens 4000
anymd search "indemnification" contracts/ --glob '*.pdf'
anymd doctor                                 # lists the optional tools anymd found

Run with no arguments from an MCP client (piped stdin), or as anymd mcp, and it serves MCP over stdio.

Formats

Read the full README →View source on GitHub →

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Frequently Asked Questions about Anymd

We don't have a confirmed install command for anymd yet, so we don't publish a generated one — a guessed package name would point at the wrong package or none at all. Follow the project's own README or setup instructions (https://github.com/SylphxAI/anymd) for the current steps.

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Anymd

Any file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Office, EPUB, HTML, images. Local Rust MCP server.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Documentation Overview

anymd

PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB, HTML and web pages, images (OCR), audio and video (metadata, subtitles, transcripts). A fast Rust MCP server and CLI that runs on your machine. No API key.

[![agent-ready 93/100](https://mark.sylphx.com/badge/agent--ready-93%2F100-brightgreen?style=flat-square&labelColor=0a0d07)](https://github.com/SylphxAI/repomap#agent-readiness-score)

Install · Benchmarks · Tools · CLI · Formats · Docs

_{Formerly pdf-reader-mcp. Migrating from pdf-reader-mcp}

_{A real, unedited terminal recording (asciinema + agg, script). The last command is Claude Code answering from the PDF through the anymd MCP server.}

Why anymd

Fast. Native Rust converts in parallel, page by page. On the 19 benchmark documents every tool converted, anymd takes 12.1 s in total; docling 1,723.3 s (143×), markitdown 45.4 s (4×), marker 5,256.3 s (435×).

Accurate. A layout engine rebuilds words from glyph gaps, puts two-column papers in reading order, and recovers tables, including borderless ones. The text stays exactly as printed, with no glued words and no scrambled columns.
Lean on tokens. Pages come back as Markdown with  citation anchors, a small front-matter header, and compact tables. A token budget and a cursor keep large documents within your agent's context.
Every format, one call. One tool reads every format listed below. It also accepts web URLs and whole directories, and search looks across all of them.
Local and private. Nothing is uploaded. OCR and transcripts use local tools you already have (tesseract, ffmpeg, whisper.cpp), and only when they are installed.

Install

Add anymd to every MCP client on your machine (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, Gemini CLI) with one command:

Terminal

npx -y @sylphx/anymd setup     # --dry-run to preview, --remove to undo

Or add it by hand: every MCP client runs the same command, npx -y @sylphx/anymd. Node 18+ is the only requirement; npm installs the native binary for your platform.

Claude Code

Terminal

claude mcp add anymd -- npx -y @sylphx/anymd

Or as a plugin, with the anymd skill: /plugin marketplace add SylphxAI/anymd, then /plugin install anymd@anymd.

Codex

bash

codex mcp add anymd -- npx -y @sylphx/anymd

or in ~/.codex/config.toml:

toml

[mcp_servers.anymd]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "@sylphx/anymd"]

Cursor

or in .cursor/mcp.json:

config.json

{ "mcpServers": { "anymd": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@sylphx/anymd"] } } }

VS Code

bash

code --add-mcp '{"name":"anymd","command":"npx","args":["-y","@sylphx/anymd"]}'

or in .vscode/mcp.json:

config.json

{ "servers": { "anymd": { "type": "stdio", "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@sylphx/anymd"] } } }

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json (Settings → Developer → Edit Config):

config.json

{ "mcpServers": { "anymd": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@sylphx/anymd"] } } }

Windsurf, Zed, Cline, and other clients

Any client that speaks MCP over stdio: command npx, args ["-y", "@sylphx/anymd"]. To keep the server inside one folder, add --allow-dir=/path/to/docs.

CLI only

Terminal

npm install -g @sylphx/anymd     # or run it once with: npx -y @sylphx/anymd <file>

Benchmarks

	anymd	docling	kreuzberg	unstructured	markitdown	marker	pdftotext
Overall score	96.3	93.0	81.7	81.2	76.8	71.0	42.2
Table cells F1	92.2	89.9	38.4	38.4	57.2	60.9	0.0
Reading order	98.8	94.4	96.8	93.9	85.5	76.8	52.0
Docs converted	38/38	38/38	38/38	38/38	38/38	30/38	23/38
Time, all docs	22.9 s	2,432.4 s	16.0 s	346.5 s	75.6 s	7,104.5 s	0.90 s

MCP tools

anymd exposes three tools.

Tool	Use it to	Key arguments
`read`	Turn a file, URL, or folder into Markdown	`source`, `pages` (`"1-5,8"`), `max_tokens` (default 20000), `cursor`, `ocr`, `transcript`, `download_whisper_model`
`search`	Find text across files, folders, and URLs	`query`, `sources`, `mode` (`auto` · `literal` · `ranked`), `glob`, `max_results`
`inspect`	Go deeper on a PDF	`operation`: `render_page`, `extract_regions`, `ocr_pages`, `structure` (JSON with geometry), `compare`, `inspect`

A read answer looks like this:

markdown

---
source: papers/attention.pdf
title: Attention Is All You Need
pages: 15
showing: pages 1-9
---

<!-- page 1 -->

# Attention Is All You Need
…

<!-- page 8 -->

|Model|BLEU EN-DE|BLEU EN-FR|
|-|-|-|
|Transformer (big)|28.4|41.8|
…

<!-- Stopped at the 20000-token budget. Continue with cursor: "10", or pick pages, or raise max_tokens. -->

search answers with one line per hit:

markdown

5 matches for "masked language model" (2 files, 31 sections searched)

### papers/bert.pdf (5)
- p.1: …by using a “**masked language model**” (MLM) pre-training objective, inspired by the Cloze task…
- p.2: …In addition to the **masked language model**, we also use a “next sentence prediction” task…

If nothing matches exactly, search falls back to BM25-ranked passages, so a question like "how does bidirectional pretraining work" still finds the right page.

CLI

The same binary is a command-line converter, like MarkItDown but much faster:

bash

anymd report.pdf > report.md                 # a file
anymd deck.pptx notes.docx budget.xlsx        # several files, each with a header
anymd https://example.com/article            # a web page (main content only)
cat scan.png | anymd - --ocr                 # stdin, with OCR
anymd paper.pdf --pages 1-3 --max-tokens 4000
anymd search "indemnification" contracts/ --glob '*.pdf'
anymd doctor                                 # lists the optional tools anymd found

Run with no arguments from an MCP client (piped stdin), or as anymd mcp, and it serves MCP over stdio.

Formats

Read the full README →View source on GitHub →

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Technical Specs & Signals

CategoryDeveloper Tools

27Quality signal: Emerging · 27/100How this signal is calculated ▾

Server availabilityNot measured

Not scored for repo-hosted servers — we can't reach the running server, only its GitHub page. Hosted MCP endpoints are health-checked live.

Verified ownership8/20

Documentation & tools11/30

Adoption & activity1/15

Community engagement0/10

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