Claude Nutrient PDF Editor connectorWhat Claude marks up, fills in and redacts in your PDFs.
The Claude Nutrient PDF Editor connector exposes 16 tools. 11 read or steer the viewer, 5 write to the file, 0 stay undocumented. Below: what Claude sees and edits in a PDF open beside you, and the auto-save you need to know about.
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What changes when a PDF needs reviewing, filling or cleaning up
On its own, Claude can parse a PDF's text but can't see the page. Nutrient PDF Editor renders the document inside the chat with the Nutrient Web Viewer, so you and Claude look at the same view. From there it can highlight, comment, fill a form or black out passages, and the edited file is saved on your computer.
Review while pointing at the right spot. open_document loads the file, read_text and search_exact_text find passages, and get_page_image shows the page as it actually looks. When Claude mentions page 4, you see page 4: you and Claude share the same viewer.
Mark up without leaving the conversation. create_annotation adds one of ten annotation types, while update_annotation and delete_annotation adjust or remove them from the file.
Fill in, then redact. update_form_field_values types, ticks and picks in a form's fields, from text boxes to drop-down lists. To redact, Claude marks the areas first, then apply_annotations applies them once you confirm in the chat.
What this connector doesn't do: work outside your own machine, or act when nobody asked it to, since every edit starts from a request in the chat. Batch-processing a stream of incoming files is a job for an automation platform, covered in the Integrations hub.
The vocabulary, in one minute
Five notions that keep coming up with Nutrient PDF Editor.
- Connector
- What you add to Claude once to open up a service or a piece of software, here a PDF editor running on your machine.
- Tool
- One precise, named action the connector makes available to Claude. Claude decides by itself when to use it.
- Authorization
- The go-ahead given once, per person, for a connector to reach what it manages. It can be pulled back later.
- Approval
- The "yes" Claude waits for in the thread before a change, for example right before it applies a redaction.
- MCP
- The open standard linking assistants to outside software; Nutrient PDF Editor is built on top of it.
Add the Claude Nutrient PDF Editor connector in three steps
- 01
Spot the editor
In Claude Desktop, open the settings, then Customize and Connectors, and search for Nutrient PDF Editor. In a Team or Enterprise organization, an Owner or Primary Owner needs to have switched it on beforehand.
- 02
Add it
Start with Connect on its row and follow the screen that comes up. If the extension misbehaves later, removing it with Disconnect and adding it back fixes most cases.
- 03
Check what you open up
Read the authorization screen carefully before you confirm: it describes the access you grant, and it, not Claude, draws the line. Withdrawing it goes through the same path.
The 16 tools in the Claude Nutrient PDF Editor connector
Nutrient PDF Editor gives Claude 16 tools: 11 that read your account, 5 that change something in it.
Eleven tools look at the document or steer the viewer, five change the file. Each tool keeps the exact name Claude displays.
- 11 read
- 5 write
What Claude consults (11)
11 toolsOpen, navigate, read and search, without changing what the PDF contains.
open_document
Loads a file into the viewer embedded in the conversation. The manifest lists the accepted formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, PNG, JPG and TIFF, so a slide deck or a scan works too.
close_document
Shuts the embedded viewer and resets the working session. The file on your disk stays exactly as it was: this tool acts on the display, not on the content.
get_view_state
Tells Claude which page is on screen, how many pages the document has and the path of the open file on your computer.
set_view_state
Scrolls, jumps to a page or selects an area in the viewer. Only the display follows along: the file's text and annotations stay untouched.
search_exact_text
Looks for a precise string of text across the whole document or only on chosen pages, and returns every hit.
read_document_information
Fetches three facts about the open file: its page count, its title and its permissions. A first look before any work on the content begins.
read_page_info
Returns the width, height and rotation of one given page, without changing anything in the file: it only reads the page's measurements.
get_page_image
Renders a page as a PNG image, along with its dimensions, so Claude sees the real layout and not just the extracted text.
read_text
Pulls the text out of the document, whole or over a page range counted from zero.
read_annotations
Lists the annotations already in the PDF, with optional filters by page and by type, so Claude knows what was marked before it got there.
read_form_fields
Collects the values already typed into the form's fields, across the document or on selected pages only, without filling in anything new.
What Claude changes (5)
5 toolsAnnotations, redactions and form fields, saved into the file itself.
create_annotation
Approval: see the ruleAdds one of the ten supported annotation types to the document, a highlight or a comment for instance, which you see appear in the viewer.
update_annotation
Approval: see the rulePatches an existing annotation, found by its ID, without recreating it from scratch.
delete_annotation
Approval: see the ruleRemoves one specific annotation, identified by its ID, from the file.
apply_annotations
Asks you firstMakes the redactions queued in the document final: the hidden content is gone from the file for good.
update_form_field_values
Approval: see the ruleTypes into text fields and sets checkboxes, radio buttons, combo boxes and list boxes in a PDF form.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude pauses and asks for your consent before an action it takes for you. Here, the publisher locks one step on top of that.
Nutrient's manifest treats apply_annotations differently: applying redactions goes through a confirmation in the chat. For the four other writing tools, no source describes a confirmation of their own, and the general rule applies. Claude never goes beyond your own rights. On Team and Enterprise, owners decide whether a member may let some actions through, and they can limit the connector for the whole organization.
Which plans include it
The official directory holds 819 sheets and none states availability by plan; for Nutrient PDF Editor, that detail doesn't exist anywhere either.
On Anthropic's side, the general rule is public: a desktop extension installs on Claude Desktop, available to all users, and on Team and Enterprise an Owner or Primary Owner opens it for the organization first. Nutrient adds a licensing condition, spelled out in the limits section. Only the Nutrient PDF Editor sheet in the directory shows the current state.
Where the Nutrient PDF Editor connector stops
A connector isn't an automation: Claude only edits a PDF during the conversation, never when a new file shows up.
The directory badge isn't a security audit, and Anthropic doesn't stand behind a publisher's tools. Only Nutrient documents this connector, through its repository and the extension manifest; no Claude help page covers it. Nutrient's two sources don't agree on the tool count, see below. For more sheets the team has taken apart, head to the Claude connectors hub. The limits below come from those two documents.
How many tools does the Nutrient PDF Editor connector expose?
- Claude directory sheet and extension manifest ↗October 2026Sixteen tools, each named, with the same list in the version 1.1.6 manifest.
- Nutrient's project page on GitHub ↗October 2026Out of dateAnnounces one more tool than the sheet, without listing their names.
What this page followsThe sheet and the manifest win, because they name every tool: this page covers 16 tools. The total on the project page matches no published list.
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