# In order to be able to use the Skim command line utilities, you might have to need to copy them to your /usr/bin/ folder sudo cp -p /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/skimpdf /usr/bin/ sudo cp -p /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/skimnotes /usr/bin/ sudo cp -p /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline /usr/bin/ # Use skimnotes to extract annotations: skimnotes get Almeida2013.pdf Almeida2013.txt # extract annotation into text format skimnotes get Almeida2013.pdf Almeida2013.skim # extract annotation into skim format