Wraps the Distill document conversion engine so Claude can turn PDFs, Office files, and HTML into clean Markdown without bloating the context window. Ships in two modes: lightweight runs pure Python locally for common formats, while the Docker-backed full mode adds OCR for scanned PDFs and transcription for audio files. The convert_and_save tool takes a file path and returns token-optimized Markdown, typically cutting 40 to 80 percent of tokens compared to raw extraction. Useful when you're feeding lengthy reports or presentations into Claude and need to preserve context budget for actual reasoning instead of formatting cruft.
claude mcp add --transport stdio lakshgk-distill-mcp -- npx -y distill-mcp-server