# `dev.pdfmd/pdf-to-markdown` on anlyon.dev

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> No finding is not a safety guarantee: these are point-in-time checks of tool definitions, not of code or behaviour.

- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/dev.pdfmd/pdf-to-markdown
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/dev.pdfmd/pdf-to-markdown
- Version: 1.0.1 (active)
- Publisher: dev.pdfmd (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:12:03.125Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
PDF to Markdown
Convert public PDF links into Markdown with page counts and explicit excerpt limits.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:59:17.041Z over streamable-http.

**1 tool: 1 change things.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 0 | allow |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `convert_pdf_url` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "convert_pdf_url" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"destructiveHint":false,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":true}; The name "convert_pdf_url" says "convert": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (1)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `convert_pdf_url`

- The name "convert_pdf_url" says "convert": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Use when someone asks to read, quote or summarize a PDF that sits at a public web link, or wants it as Markdown or HTML for research or a coding project. Returns extracted text, page and table counts, and whether scanned pages were found. It does not OCR scanned pages and it cannot open private links or local files. The reply holds at most 20,000 Markdown characters and marks a longer result as an excerpt; the whole PDF counts toward the API page allowance.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `pdf-to-markdown`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__pdf-to-markdown__convert_pdf_url"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```