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MCP Server

Use Mataparser's API through the Model Context Protocol.

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation that integrates Mataparser for document parsing capabilities. Our MCP server is open-source and available on GitHub.

Features

  • Parsing document or images into structured JSON
  • Get API request log detail

Installation

You can either use our remote hosted URL or run the server locally. Get your API key from https://mataparser.cloud/app/api-keys

Remote hosted URL:

Manual installation by cloning Github repository:

Running on Claude Desktop

Use manual installation to run Mataparser tool on Claude Desktop.

Before running Mataparser tool in Claude Desktop, please register Mataparser MCP server in Claude Desktop config JSON.

  • 1

    Open Claude Desktop Settings

    Claude Desktop Settings

    Click menu "Settings" to open the configuration window.

  • 2

    Access Developer Settings

    Claude Desktop Settings

    Navigate to the "Developer" tab in the left sidebar. Then click the "Edit Config" button to open the configuration file.

    Claude Desktop Settings

    Now you can see "claude_desktop_config.json" file, open it with your IDE like Visual Studio Code to edit.

  • 3

    Configure the MCP Server

    Replace the contents of the configuration file with the following JSON structure. This configuration tells Claude Desktop to start the Mataparser MCP Server with access to specific directories:

    Replace the "C:\\mataparser-mcp-server" value to location that you clone the "mataparser-mcp-server" repository before.

  • 4

    Reload MCP Configuration

    Claude Desktop Settings

    Click menu "Reload MCP Configuration" to reload the config. Then you can see the Mataparser MCP Server is running.

    Claude Desktop Settings

  • 5

    Test the MCP Server

    Test the Mataparser MCP Server by chat with claude. Try to run a prompt below, replace the file path with yours.

    The result:

    Claude Desktop Settings

    Congratulation! The Mataparser MCP Server already running on your Claude Desktop.