Ocr

Read PDFs and images as markdown or text, with exact costs and hard spend caps. $0.75/1k pages.

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.

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Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Client Config & Setup

Choose your client or environment

Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ocr-3": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "ocr-3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

🪙 PennyOCR MCP server

A remote Model Context Protocol server that gives any agent document-reading eyes: PDFs and images by URL → markdown (tables preserved) or plain text, with exact cost reporting and hard spend caps.

Hosted at https://mcp.pennyocr.com — nothing to install:

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pennyocr": {
      "url": "https://mcp.pennyocr.com",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer pk_live_..." }
    }
  }
}

Keys are free (100 pages/month) at pennyocr.com/dashboard. Clients that can't set headers: https://mcp.pennyocr.com/?key=pk_live_...

Tools

Tool	Input	Output
`read_document`	`{url, pages?, output?, max_pages?, max_cost_usd?}`	`{content, pages, cost_usd, citations[]}`
`estimate_cost`	`{url, pages?}`	page count + exact cost — free

The cost caps refuse before any processing, with the numbers — so autonomous agents can reason about spend ("200 pages, $0.15 — proceed") and can never run past a prepaid balance.

Transport

Streamable HTTP (JSON-RPC 2.0 over POST), stateless. This repo is the complete server — a single Cloudflare Worker (worker.js) proxying the PennyOCR API.

Pricing: $0.75 per 1,000 pages · pennyocr.com/pricing.txt · Agent onboarding: pennyocr.com/llms.txt

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Frequently Asked Questions about Ocr

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "ocr": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "ocr"] } }

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