# com.pennyocr/ocr (remote · mcp.pennyocr.com)

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

- Trust score: 60/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-21

## Components

- remote · `mcp.pennyocr.com`: 60/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-pennyocr-ocr/mcp.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-pennyocr-ocr/mcp)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://mcp.pennyocr.com`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `required`
- Version: `0.1.0`

## 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 2026-08-21.

- **Endpoint Security**: 46/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - Authorisation not fully verified: no authorisation is required to call this server, and 2 tool(s) never declared a destructiveHint. The MCP spec treats an absent hint as destructive by default, so we cannot call this surface safe.
  - HTTPS check failed: the endpoint is reachable over plaintext HTTP.
  - 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**: 81/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 312 tokens (~156/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**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: authentication we do not have, an unreachable endpoint, or not enough scan history. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-pennyocr-ocr https://mcp.pennyocr.com/
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-pennyocr-ocr]
url = "https://mcp.pennyocr.com/"
```

### opencode

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

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-pennyocr-ocr --url https://mcp.pennyocr.com/ --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-pennyocr-ocr:
    url: "https://mcp.pennyocr.com/"
```

### Other

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

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.

### 2026-08-21 (score 60)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (2)

### `read_document` (~173 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `max_cost_usd` (number): Refuse (with the numbers) if the run would cost more than this.
- `max_pages` (integer): Refuse (with the numbers) if selection exceeds this many pages.
- `output` (string): Output format. Default markdown.
- `pages` (string): Page range like '1-20,25'. Default: all pages.
- `url` (string, required): http(s) URL of the PDF or image

### `estimate_cost` (~69 tokens)

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.

Input parameters:

- `pages` (string): Optional page range like '1-20'.
- `url` (string, required): http(s) URL of the PDF or image

## Diagnostics

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

## Score history

- 2026-08-21: 60

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://mcp.pennyocr.com/
- Authorisation metadata: https://mcp.pennyocr.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
- Repository: https://github.com/imiraoui/pennyocr-mcp
- Website: https://pennyocr.com/mcp/
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-pennyocr-ocr/mcp.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-pennyocr-ocr/mcp.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-pennyocr-ocr/mcp