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Extract annotation out of Skim-annotated files (Skim is a Mac OS X only application for viewing and annotating pdfs).
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using_skimnotes
# 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
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