Problem
Currently, the Evernote MCP can detect that a note has PDF attachments but cannot read their contents. Claude reports it can only see that PDFs exist, not what's inside them.
Evernote itself supports full-text search inside PDFs and its native AI can read them — but this capability isn't surfaced through the MCP.
Expected Behavior
When a note has a PDF attachment, the MCP should be able to extract and return the text content of that PDF so Claude (or any MCP client) can reason over it.
Proposed Solution
- When fetching a note with PDF attachments, download the resource binary from the Evernote API
- Extract text content using a PDF parsing library (e.g.
pdf-parse, pdfjs-dist)
- Include extracted text in the note response alongside or inside the attachment metadata
Acceptance Criteria
Context
Reported by a community user in the AutoJack Discord. Related to the broader Evernote-as-knowledge-source use case where users want Claude to reason over their full Evernote library including attached documents.
cc @jack-arturo
Problem
Currently, the Evernote MCP can detect that a note has PDF attachments but cannot read their contents. Claude reports it can only see that PDFs exist, not what's inside them.
Evernote itself supports full-text search inside PDFs and its native AI can read them — but this capability isn't surfaced through the MCP.
Expected Behavior
When a note has a PDF attachment, the MCP should be able to extract and return the text content of that PDF so Claude (or any MCP client) can reason over it.
Proposed Solution
pdf-parse,pdfjs-dist)Acceptance Criteria
Context
Reported by a community user in the AutoJack Discord. Related to the broader Evernote-as-knowledge-source use case where users want Claude to reason over their full Evernote library including attached documents.
cc @jack-arturo