Install NanoPDF in Claude Code

What you need first

• Claude Code, installed.
• Docker, which gives the docker command the server starts with.
• Your own value for YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY.

Steps

1. Run this in a terminal, in the project folder. It adds the server for you in that project; put --scope user after claude mcp add to have it in every project.

claude mcp add --env GEMINI_API_KEY=YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY --transport stdio nano-pdf-mcp -- docker run -i --rm -e GEMINI_API_KEY docker.io/taibennett/nano-pdf-mcp:0.1.0

2. Replace YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY with your own value.
3. Start Claude Code and type /mcp: the server is listed with its state.

Check it worked

Ask Claude Code: List the tools of nano-pdf-mcp.

If it does not start

Cannot connect to the Docker daemon

Docker is not running. Start it, then restart Claude Code.

The server starts, but its tools fail

A YOUR_… placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong.