PDF Reader MCP vs Warcraft III Map Tools | AllMCPs
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PDF Reader MCP vs Warcraft III Map Tools
In-depth architectural comparison of the PDF Reader MCP and Warcraft III Map Tools MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.
At a Glance & Executive Verdict
PDF Reader MCP
Developer Tools · Local stdio
Quality: 69/100 (Great) | Auth: No auth required
Warcraft III Map Tools
Developer Tools · Local stdio
Quality: 45/100 (Fair) | Auth: No auth required
Verdict Summary: Choose PDF Reader MCP if you need specialized Developer Tools tools running via a local process. Choose Warcraft III Map Tools if your workspace requires Developer Tools integration with local subprocess execution. Both servers can be configured concurrently in your client's mcpServers manifest.
Which MCP Server Should You Choose?
Choose PDF Reader MCP when:
You need dedicated capabilities in the Developer Tools domain.
You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
Document and media evidence when Markdown is not enough. video_timeline (bounded scene/cue timeline) and render_frame (actual decoded frames), and cite_check (quote/location support, not semantic truth), are anymd Pro; PDF operations: inspect (page facts, metadata), render_page (PNG images), extract_regions (crop bounding boxes), ocr_pages / analyze_regions (configured OCR or vision provider), structure (JSON with document map, elements, geometry; profile quality|research adds trust and accessibility reports), compare (page-level diff of sources[0] vs sources[1]).
outline
Return a document heading tree with stable node ids, title paths, page/slide/chapter ranges and Markdown byte ranges. PDF bookmarks or detected headings, Word headings, PowerPoint slides, EPUB chapters and headings, HTML and Markdown. format json (default) or tree. Pass a node id to read to fetch that section.
read
Read any document as clean Markdown: PDF, Word (DOCX), PowerPoint (PPTX), Excel (XLSX/XLS/ODS), CSV, EPUB, HTML or a web URL, Markdown/text, images (metadata + OCR), audio/video (metadata, chapters, subtitles). Pages/slides/sheets carry <!-- page N --> style markers for citation. Long documents stop at max_tokens (default 20000) and end with a cursor to continue; choose pages with pages: "1-5,8". A directory returns its readable files.
Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations
Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).
PDF Reader MCP is categorized under Developer Tools and uses a local stdio subprocess. In contrast, Warcraft III Map Tools belongs to Developer Tools using local stdio subprocess. Select PDF Reader MCP when you need capabilities focused on developer tools and Warcraft III Map Tools when you require tools for developer tools.
Search documents for text: one file, many files, whole directories (recursive, .gitignore aware), or URLs, across every format read supports. Returns each hit as file + page/slide/sheet + a snippet with the match in bold. mode auto (default) finds the exact phrase and falls back to BM25-ranked passages when there is none; literal or ranked force one. Narrow directories with glob, e.g. "*.pdf".
Warcraft III Map Tools Tools (80)
asset_list
List the asset paths an icon or model object field can actually be set to, from the map's own imported files and from the base game.
audit_ability
Tells you, per ability, PASS or the exact broken link across a placed hero's whole runtime chain, far deeper than audit_hero, which only proves a cast...
audit_fidelity
Tells you whether a ported object's data came across faithfully, by comparing it and its whole custom-object dependency closure between the SOURCE map it...
audit_hero
Tells you whether a placed hero's abilities are actually wired up in the map's script, not merely present as object data.
audit_map
Behavioural audit of a map's object data, read-only.
audit_readiness
Tells you whether a placed hero's script would actually RUN correctly, not just fire, the gap audit_hero cannot see since it only proves a cast reaches a...
bundle_unit
Resolve everything a unit depends on, the porting preview.
camera_add
Add a camera at a target position and save the edited map to out_path.
camera_list
List the map's cameras (war3map.w3c).
camera_remove
Remove a camera and save the edited map to out_path.
camera_set
Set a field on a camera and save the edited map to out_path.