Comparison

mineru-document-extraction vs Scholar MCP

mineru-document-extraction is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by decrystal. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). Scholar MCP is an MCP server published by pvliesdonk. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-11-06. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.

Where each is published

Where each is published
Marketplace	mineru-document-extraction	Scholar MCP
Claude Code: claude-plugins-community	Listed Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 0 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11	Not listed
Official MCP Registry	Not listed	Listed Version: 3.1.1 Downloads/month (PyPI): 1 040 Downloads/week (PyPI): 101 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 3 Not marked · First seen 2026-10-11

Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.

The facts side by side

mineru-document-extraction vs Scholar MCP
Fact	mineru-document-extraction	Scholar MCP
Marketplaces that list it	1	1
Stars (GitHub) (differs)	0 (worse)	3 (better)
Forks (GitHub) (differs)	0 (worse)	1 (better)
Last release (differs)	Not published	2026-11-03
Where it runs (differs)	Remote server (mcp.mineru.net/mcp)	On your machine (pvliesdonk-scholar-mcp)
Transport (differs)	Streamable HTTP	stdio
Tools it declares	Not published	Not published
Environment variables it asks for (differs)	1, secrets among them: 1	44, secrets among them: 8
Parts of the bundle (differs)	2	Not a bundle
Licence (differs)	MIT	Not stated
Repository (differs)	github.com/decrystal/mineru-claude-plugin	github.com/pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp
Changes in the last 7 days (differs)	0	5
First seen	2026-10-11	2026-10-11
Endpoint at the last check (differs)	Status out of date: last check 2 days ago returned HTTP 406	no remote endpoint we check

Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.

What each says it does

mineru-document-extraction

In its own words, on Claude Code: claude-plugins-community:

MinerU document extraction — convert PDFs, scanned documents, images, Word (DOC/DOCX), PowerPoint (PPT/PPTX), and web pages into clean Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, or DOCX. MinerU is an all-in-one CLI tool and agent skill for reliable, high-fidelity document parsing.

Scholar MCP

In its own words, on Official MCP Registry:

Scholarly papers, patents, books, standards and PDF conversion

How to run each

mineru-document-extraction As a Claude Code plugin

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install mineru-document-extraction@claude-community

Scholar MCP As a local MCP server: PyPI package

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env "SCHOLAR_GITHUB_TOKEN=<YOUR_SCHOLAR_GITHUB_TOKEN>" --env "SCHOLAR_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN=<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN>" --env "SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_SECRET=<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_SECRET>" --env "SCHOLAR_MCP_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY=<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY>" --env "SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET=<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET>" --env "SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY=<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY>" --env "SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEY=<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEY>" --env "SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_KEY=<YOUR_SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_KEY>" --transport stdio scholar-mcp -- uvx pvliesdonk-scholar-mcp

Requires: SCHOLAR_GITHUB_TOKEN (secret), SCHOLAR_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN (secret), SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_SECRET (secret), SCHOLAR_MCP_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY (secret), SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET (secret), SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY (secret), SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEY (secret), SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_KEY (secret)

Commands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.

Only mineru-document-extraction has a remote endpoint we check. How we check endpoints

Tools each declares

Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.

Settings each asks for

Only mineru-document-extraction asks for

MINERU_API_TOKEN (secret)

Only Scholar MCP asks for

PGID
PUID
SCHOLAR_GITHUB_TOKEN (secret)
SCHOLAR_MCP_ACCESS_LINKS
SCHOLAR_MCP_APP_DOMAIN
SCHOLAR_MCP_AUTH_MODE
SCHOLAR_MCP_BASE_URL
SCHOLAR_MCP_BEARER_DEFAULT_SUBJECT
SCHOLAR_MCP_BEARER_TOKEN (secret)
SCHOLAR_MCP_BEARER_TOKENS_FILE
SCHOLAR_MCP_CACHE_DIR
SCHOLAR_MCP_CONTACT_EMAIL

Show the remaining 32

SCHOLAR_MCP_DOCLING_URL
SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_KEY
SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_SECRET (secret)
SCHOLAR_MCP_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY (secret)
SCHOLAR_MCP_HEALTH_DETAIL
SCHOLAR_MCP_HTTP_PATH
SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTANCE_DESCRIPTION
SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS
SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS_EXTRA
SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_MAX_PER_SUBJECT
SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_RESULT_TTL_S
SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_SOFT_DEADLINE_S
SCHOLAR_MCP_KV_STORE_URL
SCHOLAR_MCP_LOG_FORMAT
SCHOLAR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL
SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_ADVERTISED_SCOPES
SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_AUDIENCE
SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_ID
SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET (secret)
SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_CONFIG_URL
SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_JWT_SIGNING_KEY (secret)
SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_REQUIRED_SCOPES
SCHOLAR_MCP_OIDC_VERIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN
SCHOLAR_MCP_READ_ONLY
SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEY (secret)
SCHOLAR_MCP_SERVER_NAME
SCHOLAR_MCP_SHUTDOWN_GRACE_S
SCHOLAR_MCP_TOOLS_ALLOW
SCHOLAR_MCP_TOOLS_DENY
SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_KEY (secret)
SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_URL
SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_MODEL

Settings as each marketplace publishes them. Asking for fewer is not better in itself.

What it can do: mineru-document-extraction · What it can do: Scholar MCP · Compare two other plugins

Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on 2026-11-06. We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.