Skim notes of your PDF

Scripting Forums Code Exchange
#1

This is properly possible to do with the scriptable Skim.app.
After looking at this: Skim / Wiki / SkimNotes_Tool

I decide to do it little different.

  1. Make text note, hightlight text… in Skim and save your PDF
  2. Run the AppleScript below

It will create skim notes (format: RTF) of your PDF in the same folder as your PDF.

set skimCommand to "/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/skimnotes "
set skimParameters to "get -format rtf "

set thePath to getPathOfFrontDocument()
do shell script skimCommand & skimParameters & thePath

on getPathOfFrontDocument()
	tell application "Skim"
		return its path of front document
	end tell
end getPathOfFrontDocument
#2

And if we like to highlight text inside PDF in Skim and later run script to extract its content

(**
* [allNotesFromFrontDocument]
*)
-- its allNotesFromFrontDocument()
on allNotesFromFrontDocument()
	tell application "Skim"
		set noteObjects to note of front document
		set {idx, noteList} to {1, {}}
		repeat while idx ≤ (noteObjects's length)
			set the end of noteList to text of (item idx of noteObjects) as string
			set idx to idx + 1
		end repeat
		return noteList
	end tell
end allNotesFromFrontDocument

(**
* [notesFromPageNumber(integer pageNumber)]
*)
its notesFromPageNumber(1)
on notesFromPageNumber(pageNumber)
	tell application "Skim"
		tell page pageNumber of front document
			set noteObjects to its notes
			set {idx, noteList} to {1, {}}
			repeat while idx ≤ noteObjects's length
				set the end of noteList to text of (item idx of noteObjects) as string
				set idx to idx + 1
			end repeat
			return noteList
		end tell
	end tell
end notesFromPageNumber