Is PDF safe and trustworthy?

tashan scores PDF on public evidence — tashan score 82.0/100, it is currently active, no known advisories against the current release. Audit scope: OSV advisories, install-time scripts, build provenance and declared permission surface. We do not review source code or execute the capability.

How do I install PDF?

In Claude Code: run `claude mcp add pdf -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-pdf`. In Cursor / Claude Desktop, add it to mcp.json / claude_desktop_config.json.

published by Anthropic, source: modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps.

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npm ✓ Anthropic · official

MCP server for loading and extracting text from PDF files with chunked pagination and interactive viewer

Works with: Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cline, Windsurf, VS Code (installable)
installable: each client documents how to load an MCP server of this type — that is the client's promise, not a claim verified against this capability

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Install (Claude Code):

claude mcp add pdf -- npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-pdf

Not graded: shares its documentation with 1 other capability. A grade read off another project’s document would borrow its credit, or its blame.

tashan score: 82.0
Adoption: 138k/wk
Upkeep: 94.0
Freshness: 89.0
Evidence coverage: 100% of the inputs this score can use
Health: active
License: MIT

Security audit

Every finding is shown in full — which advisory, the version that fixes it, and the exact command run at install time. Nothing in this audit is behind a licence.

No known advisoriesclearchecked against OSV for 1.7.5 — this package, not its dependency tree

1 vulnerable dependencyinstalls[email protected] — GHSA-hq66-cqwq-w95j · found by resolving all 120 packages this installs and querying OSV at the version each resolves to, not by name

No access inferred from declared dependenciesnothing it depends on reaches files, shell or network. This reads declarations only — built-in APIs are invisible to it, so absence of a declaration is not absence of access

Signed build provenancepublished from public CI with an attestation

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