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com.pennyocr/ocr

by pennyocr.com · remote · no sign-in to list tools · v0.1.0 · published by com.pennyocr

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

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2 tools: 1 change things and 1 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http ocr https://mcp.pennyocr.com --header 'Authorization: <your-authorization>'

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

2 tools

Changes things 1Claude Code: ask
  • estimate_costFree: return the page count and exact cost_usd to read a document URL with read_document, without running OCR.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Free: return the page count and exact cost_usd to read a document URL with read_document, without running OCR. Use before reading large documents.
Only reads 1Claude Code: allow
  • read_documentRead a document (PDF or image) from a URL and return its contents as markdown (tables preserved) or plain text.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "read_document" says "read": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Read a document (PDF or image) from a URL and return its contents as markdown (tables preserved) or plain text. Costs $0.00075 per page, billed to the PennyOCR account; the response includes the exact cost_usd and per-page citations. Use estimate_cost first for big documents. Supports page ranges and hard spend caps.

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 0.1.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http ocr https://mcp.pennyocr.com --header 'Authorization: <your-authorization>'

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__ocr__read_document"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__ocr__estimate_cost"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as ocr. Review it before you use it.