Sometime back I wrote about DBvisualizer to generate schema ER design from database.

Here is another way by using schemaspy.

http://schemaspy.sourceforge.net/

This is a simple java based tool/ jar file. As per example given in link above, all you need to run the jar file providing database access details.

java -jar schemaSpy.jar -t dbType -db dbName [-s schema] -u user [-p password] -o outputDir 

You might want to give database drivers jar file path. For example, for Postgres

java -jar /home/kamal/pathto/schemaSpy_5.0.0.jar -t pgsql -db dbnamehere -s public -u dhusername -p dbpassword -host localhost -port 5432  -o /home/kamal/outputdir -dp /home/kamal/pathto/postgresql-9.3-1104.jdbc4.jar