Reading, converting and translating PDFs · Any runtime
Agent plugins for working with PDFs
Written by AI draft (Claude), pending human review · Reviewed by Michael Kantor on
Direct answer
A catalog search for Reading, converting and translating PDFs returns 33 listings; these 6 are built for the task and take different approaches. Choose by the agent you run and whether you need skills, an MCP server or both. The list is not ranked.
Plugins for this task
jbaehova/pdf-monster
Choose it when You work in Codex and want what its listing describes: Analyzes PDFs as extracted text, OCR text, rendered page images, and embedded figures for coding agents. Ships no skills or MCP servers in its manifest.
View listing and setupsylphxai/anymd
Choose it when You work in Claude Code, any MCP client and Cursor and want what its listing describes: Local MCP server and CLI that converts PDF, Office, EPUB, HTML, image, audio and video files into clean Markdown for agents. Ships 1 skill and 3 MCP servers.
View listing and setupBabelDOC PDF Translate
Choose it when You work in Codex and Agent Plugin hosts and want what its listing describes: Translate PDFs with local BabelDOC typesetting, configurable translation providers, bilingual output and custom terminology. Ships 2 skills.
View listing and setupReportCraft MCP
Choose it when You work in Codex, any MCP client and Claude Code and want what its listing describes: MCP server that automates academic and project report generation through screenshots, source code collection, self-contained HTML, and personalized PDF exports. Ships 1 MCP server.
View listing and setuphtml-css-to-image/html-css-to-image
Choose it when You work in Codex, Grok, Kimi, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor and Agent Plugin hosts and want what its listing describes: Let AI agents capture live website screenshots, render HTML/CSS and populate reusable templates as images or PDFs without managing a browser. Ships 4 skills and 1 MCP server.
View listing and setupClaude Book Reader
Choose it when You work in Claude Code and want what its listing describes: Claude Code mod to read a PDF book in a pane or browser window while the agent works, with pictures shown in kitty and Ghostty. Ships no skills or MCP servers in its manifest.
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Facts side by side
Generated from the HOL catalog. Facts as of . Rows marked “differs” are where the choice is made.
| Fact | BabelDOC PDF Translate | ReportCraft MCP | Claude Book Reader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Works withdiffers | Agent Plugin, Codex | Claude Code, Codex, MCP | Claude Code |
| Trust scorediffers | 62/100 | 69/100 | 65/100 |
| Security scandiffers | Caution (59/100, 6 findings) | Needs review (76/100, 2 findings) | Caution (64/100, 3 findings) |
| Owner verified | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Skillsdiffers | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| MCP serversdiffers | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Apps | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Versiondiffers | 1.3.0 | 1.0.0 | 0.2.0 |
| Last updateddiffers | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-10 | 2026-10-11 |
| Developerdiffers | reliable-ly0411 | Hitarth Thombre | Nomad06 |
| Categorydiffers | Tools & Integrations | Development & Workflow | Development & Workflow |
| Paid placement | None | None | None |
Limitations
- HOL has not yet collected enough setup outcomes to say which of these installs succeed more often.
- Contents and runtimes come from each repository manifest at the last scan and may have changed since.
- Not yet claimed by the owner, so publisher details are unconfirmed: PDF Monster.
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