# Faceabot PDF text extractor (remote · pdf.faceabot.com)

Read the text of any public PDF, page by page, plus page count and metadata. Free, no key.

- Trust score: 72/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-10-24

## Components

- remote · `pdf.faceabot.com`: 72/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-pdf/pdf.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-pdf/pdf)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-10-24.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 73/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 359 tokens (~179/item across 2 items; 2 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 10/100
  - Stability observed for 3 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 93/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 80% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 2 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 3 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### How do I install the Faceabot PDF text extractor MCP server?

Faceabot PDF text extractor is a hosted endpoint at https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-faceabot-pdf 'https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-faceabot-pdf": {
      "url": "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-faceabot-pdf": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-faceabot-pdf]
url = "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-faceabot-pdf": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-faceabot-pdf --url 'https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-faceabot-pdf:
    url: "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-faceabot-pdf": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-faceabot-pdf -t streamable-http -u 'https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-faceabot-pdf": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-10-24 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-22 (score 71, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-21 (score 70)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `pdf_extract_text` (~158 tokens)

Extract text from a PDF

Reads a PDF from its public https address and returns its text, page by page (parse / read a PDF: invoices, papers, reports, contracts, forms…). Up to 10 MB; use start to read further.
Use when: you need the text content of a PDF file. Not for scanned PDFs (images only): those need OCR.
Example: {"url":"https://pdf.faceabot.com/sample.pdf"}

Input parameters:

- `max_chars` (integer)
- `pages` (string): Optional pages to read, e.g. "1-3" or "2,5". Default: all
- `start` (integer): Character offset to continue a long text
- `url` (string, required): Public https address of the PDF file

### `pdf_info` (~70 tokens)

PDF information

Number of pages, title, author, creation date and whether the PDF has extractable text.
Use when: you want to know what a PDF is before reading it.
Example: {"url":"https://pdf.faceabot.com/sample.pdf"}

Input parameters:

- `url` (string, required): Public https address of the PDF file

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-pdf/pdf#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-10-24: 72
- 2026-10-23: 71
- 2026-10-22: 71
- 2026-10-21: 70

## Common questions

### What is the Faceabot PDF text extractor MCP server?

Faceabot PDF text extractor is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.faceabot/pdf. Read the text of any public PDF, page by page, plus page count and metadata. Free, no key. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp).

### Is the Faceabot PDF text extractor MCP server safe to use?

Faceabot PDF text extractor scores 72 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Faceabot PDF text extractor MCP server expose?

Faceabot PDF text extractor exposes 2 tools: pdf_extract_text, pdf_info. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 228 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Faceabot PDF text extractor MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Faceabot PDF text extractor without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Faceabot PDF text extractor MCP server still maintained?

Faceabot PDF text extractor is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 24 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://pdf.faceabot.com/mcp
- Website: https://faceabot.com/tools/com.faceabot/pdf
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-pdf/pdf.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-pdf/pdf.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-faceabot-pdf/pdf