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Claude Desktop Integration

Integrate PDF Gen Studio MCP with Claude Desktop to generate PDFs and images directly in your conversations.

Configuration​

Add the following to your Claude Desktop configuration file:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Linux: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdfgenstudio": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pdfgenstudio/mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PDFGENSTUDIO_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Using Local Installation​

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdfgenstudio": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/pdfgenstudio-mcp/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "PDFGENSTUDIO_API_KEY": "your-api-key-here"
      }
    }
  }
}

After editing, restart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect.

Docker Desktop (MCP Toolkit)​

PDF Gen Studio MCP is available in Docker Desktop's MCP Toolkit catalog.

Option 1: Using Docker Desktop MCP Toolkit UI​

  1. Open Docker Desktop
  2. Go to Extensions → MCP Toolkit
  3. Search for "pdfgenstudio" in the catalog
  4. Click Install and configure your API key

Option 2: Manual Docker Configuration​

Add to your Claude Desktop configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pdfgenstudio": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e", "PDFGENSTUDIO_API_KEY=your-api-key-here",
        "mcp/pdfgenstudio:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Running Docker Container Directly​

# Run in stdio mode (default) - for MCP client integration
docker run -it --rm \
  -e PDFGENSTUDIO_API_KEY="your-api-key-here" \
  mcp/pdfgenstudio:latest

# Run in HTTP mode - for local development/testing
docker run -it --rm -p 3100:3100 \
  -e PDFGENSTUDIO_API_KEY="your-api-key-here" \
  mcp/pdfgenstudio:latest node dist/index.js --transport http --port 3100

Using Docker Compose​

# Create .env file with your API key
echo "PDFGENSTUDIO_API_KEY=your-api-key-here" > .env

# Run in stdio mode (default)
docker-compose up -d pdfgenstudio-mcp

# Run in HTTP mode (for local testing)
docker-compose --profile http up -d pdfgenstudio-mcp-http

Example Usage​

Once configured, you can ask Claude to:

Use the render_template tool to generate a PDF from template ID "abc123" 
with the following data: {"name": "John Doe", "amount": "$500"}
Capture a full-page screenshot of https://example.com as PNG
Convert this HTML to PDF:
<html>
  <body>
    <h1>Monthly Report</h1>
    <p>Content here...</p>
  </body>
</html>
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