remarkable-mcp_skill

Overview

This skill connects to a reMarkable tablet and exposes documents, notebooks, PDFs, and EPUBs for reading, searching, browsing, and export. It supports both typed and handwritten content, including handwriting OCR, annotations, and highlights. You can render pages to PNG or SVG and extract searchable text across your entire device.

How this skill works

The skill talks to the reMarkable device over USB, SSH, or cloud (Connect token) and presents tools for browsing, reading, and rendering content. It provides OCR-powered search across multiple documents, text extraction with pagination, and page rendering as images. Device status and recent activity are also available so you can verify connection and quickly find updated notes.

When to use it

• You want to search across handwritten notebooks and typed documents on your reMarkable.
• You need high-quality page renders (PNG/SVG) for sharing or archival.
• You want to extract and export text from PDFs, EPUBs, or handwritten pages.
• You need to browse folders, tags, or recently modified files on the tablet.
• You want a programmatic way to index or back up documents without using the official cloud.

Best practices

• Use USB web interface mode for the most reliable, fast local access when possible.
• Add a Google Vision API key to improve handwriting OCR accuracy for messy notes.
• Start with browse or search to locate documents, then use read or image rendering for detail.
• Paginate when extracting long documents to avoid memory spikes and to control output size.
• Check device status before heavy operations to confirm connection and available space.

Example use cases

• Search all notebooks for a meeting keyword and extract matching pages as text.
• Render a chapter of an EPUB to PNGs for inclusion in a presentation.
• Convert handwritten lecture notes to searchable text using OCR and export to markdown.
• List recently modified documents to sync only new content to a backup service.
• Browse tags and filter documents to assemble a set of pages for study or review.