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LeanMCP
✓ verifiedFree
Developer platform for building, deploying, and monitoring MCP servers that power AI agents, with SDKs, an AI gateway, and observability.
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Image to Text Converter
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free-tier AI OCR that batch-extracts editable text from images, with paid plans for larger volumes and formatted output.
5.8M visits/mo
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PDFgear
✓ verifiedFree
Free desktop and web PDF suite for editing, converting, OCR, and signing, with built-in AI chat and summarization.
3.0M visits/mo310 saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Premium: $8/mo (15,000 credits, 50 images/submission)
Standard: $10/mo
Higher tier: $40/mo
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Open-source MCP server SDK with TypeScript decorators or Python APIs
- ✦One-command managed deployment to an edge network
- ✦Built-in OAuth 2.0 authentication and role-based access control
- ✦AI gateway compatible with the OpenAI SDK
- ✦Real-time tool-call monitoring and distributed tracing
- ✦Compatibility with Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf
- ✦AI OCR image-to-text
- ✦Batch conversion up to 1000 images
- ✦Simple and formatted output modes
- ✦Multiple image formats supported
- ✦API access
- ✦Ad-free paid tiers
- ✦Edit text, images, and form fields in PDFs
- ✦Convert between PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and images
- ✦OCR with 30+ language support
- ✦Annotate with highlights, notes, and stamps
- ✦AI chat and summarization built into the app
- ✦Cross-device sync across desktop, web, and mobile
Use cases
- →Building custom MCP tool servers for AI agents
- →Deploying agent backends without managing infrastructure
- →Adding authentication and rate limiting to an MCP server
- →Monitoring and debugging agent tool calls in production
- →Running hackathon or prototype MCP projects on free libraries
- →Copying text from photos and screenshots
- →Extracting notes from whiteboard/class images
- →Digitizing printed documents
- →Bulk OCR via API
- →Editing and converting PDFs without paying for Adobe Acrobat
- →Summarizing long PDFs with built-in AI chat
- →OCR-ing scanned documents into editable text
- →Signing documents on desktop or mobile
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