The original skimembed script converts a single PDF with skim annotations (which are in the form of 'extended attributed') to a single PDF with embedded annotations. Whether or not this successfully converts more complicated annotations depends on the detail of the skimembed script, which I don't know much about. Note that the only annotations I use are highlighting (single color) and comments. This is the method I used on my entire Zotero library (~3GB of PDFs). Skim.embed_notes_batch('./path/to/Literature folder') # batch embeding process with path to folder with literature Skim.embed_notes('./path/to/pdf file.pdf') # skim.embed_suffix = '_embeded' # uncomment and enter your own suffix if necessary Skim.replace = True # set to false if you want a copy in place instead '''Loop through directories in given folder and embed notes.'''įor path, subdirs, files in walk(folder): Message = 'Embeded notes to '%s'' % in_pdf Out_pdf = '%s%s.pdf' % (in_pdf, self.embed_suffix)Ĭmd = '%s embed '%s' '%s'' % (self.skimpdf_path, in_pdf, out_pdf) Self.skimpdf_path = '/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/skimpdf' You can download the script as an osx service and as an alfred workflow at. I haven't developed one yet because I havent found any need for it. It is possible to create an osx folder action that runs the script on changed files in a folder automatically, every time a file changes. Be aware, that the script won't process files with a ' in its filepath. I used the script to embed 568 pdfs scattered in a folder with various subfolders. The apple script by Jess Riedel wasn't working for me, so I coded a python script to do the job. I had the same problem and wanted to batch embed a lot of skim pdfs.

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