Extract hardcoded subtitles to SRT

[Night457]

BTW: I found a new program for extracting hardcoded subtitles.

Video Subtitle Extractor: https://github.com/YaoFANGUK/video-subtitle-extractor

You get a srt file just with one click and it does a very good job. The default gui is in chinese, but you can change it to English.

[Alex_kaplan]

Who can help me to extract hardcoded subtitles from this French movie, - just I can not find anywhere in the network subtitles to this French movie, also the quality of Full HD everywhere premium, the only version found in the network 720p, would be very grateful for subtitles (subtitles in Thai )

La Belle Bleue (2023) France

https://iplayerhls.com/in018e55knx8

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[DreamScape]

I haven't tried the new tool yet, but I generally avoid OCR'ing text that I can't even type on my keyboard. There's just too much error correction that needs to be done even in the most optimistic case.

[ghost]

I haven't tried the new tool yet, but I generally avoid OCR'ing text that I can't even type on my keyboard. There's just too much error correction that needs to be done even in the most optimistic case.

It worked pretty well for me, only with a few corrections to do.

It's at least a better solution than VideoSubFinder. And it's a lot less work.

[Alex_kaplan]

I haven't tried the new tool yet, but I generally avoid OCR'ing text that I can't even type on my keyboard. There's just too much error correction that needs to be done even in the most optimistic case.

Yes, about the accuracy of these subtitles I do not know, this language for me also like Chinese (characters) - I just thought as Night457 wrote in the previous post - you get the STR file and then translate it into English text using such online applications

https://www.onlinedoctranslator.com/app ... ionprocess

[Night457]

Please note that I created this thread to make it easier to find information about this software for future FLM searchers, and discuss it as needed. I do not actually know anything about this software myself! My post simply QUOTED what ghost had already posted in another thread. I know he makes good software recommendations.

[ghost]

To make it clear: This software is only for extracting hardcoded subtitles to a srt file. No translation.

As I wrote before: You can change the GUI language to English.

[voyagerabba]

Many thanks. I was just looking for this.

Downloaded CPU version which is much smaller. Before using, I opened "settings" file with Notepad and changed Chinese lines as below and saved the file:
Interface = English
Language = eng

Then opened GUI in English, choosed the language of my hardcoded subtitles (from Settings) and clicked Run:

[Processing] Start to extract subtitle information, this step may take a long time, please be patient...

It took 40 minutes to extract hardcoded subtitles from a 2-hour-TV-record.

SRT file created in the same folder with the video.

Good results. No time errors.

Some language errors to be manually corrected, most of them are unnecessary spaces between characters.

[DreamScape]

It worked pretty well for me, only with a few corrections to do.

It's at least a better solution than VideoSubFinder. And it's a lot less work.

With Dutch, I had extra spaces in nearly every line.

I notice with English things went much more smoothly.

In fact, the issue with Dutch is that the AI wants to split Dutch words into smaller English words. Perhaps it has been over-trained.

Have you seen something similar or am I doing something wrong?

It does have a hell of time with parenthesis too, skipping many of them and adding unnecessary spacing.

It is funny how desperate it is to read letters off of t-shirts and how crazy it gets if someone is reading a newspaper.

[ghost]

With Dutch, I had extra spaces in nearly every line.

I never had this issue before, but this can easily be fixed with SubtitleEdit (Spell check, fix common errors...).

I've also tried it with a different language than English (was it Spanish?) and the result was pretty good.

What I noticed is, that some periods at the end of sentences are skipped. But think of VideoSubFinder: You offen get resuts like)/z8hf.$kjsjk...
All in all I think this software does a pretty good job. Of course it's not perfect.

It is funny how desperate it is to read letters off of t-shirts and how crazy it gets if someone is reading a newspaper.

Use the fast mode. The accurate mode went crazy for me too.