README:
- bump tool count 46 → 47, add Format Conversion bullet
- fix `claude mcp add` syntax (needs `--` separator before uvx)
- show `uvx --from "mcp-pdf[markdown]" mcp-pdf` for the new tool
- note about uvx caching + `--refresh`
- new "Format Conversion" tools subsection (markdown_to_pdf alongside pdf_to_markdown)
- new "Optional Extras" section explaining [forms], [tables], [markdown], [all]
- expand System Dependencies with Arch (pacman) and macOS (brew) recipes for
pandoc + a PDF engine
QUICKSTART:
- replace stale `mcp-pdf-tools` package name with current `mcp-pdf`
- add uvx as the recommended end-user install path
- add pip install patterns including all optional extras
- add pacman block alongside apt-get and brew
- add markdown_to_pdf troubleshooting (mktexfmt errors, engine fallback)
- add a smoke-test snippet using the new tool
Features:
- 8 comprehensive PDF processing tools with intelligent fallbacks
- Text extraction (PyMuPDF, pdfplumber, pypdf with auto-selection)
- Table extraction (Camelot → pdfplumber → Tabula fallback chain)
- OCR processing with Tesseract and preprocessing options
- Document analysis (structure, metadata, scanned detection)
- Image extraction with filtering capabilities
- PDF to markdown conversion with metadata
- Built on FastMCP framework with full MCP protocol support
- Comprehensive error handling and user-friendly messages
- Docker support and cross-platform compatibility
- Complete test suite and examples
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
