Re: Re: srt subs

Thank you Robin,

does Gocr work alright? :)



2007/4/30, Robin Hill <[email protected]>:
> On Mon Apr 30, 2007 at 10:29:09AM -0300, Ufa wrote:
>
> > Hello people
> > I want to know is there is a way to export the dvd subtitle direct to
> > the srt format, instead of vobsub.
> > Is it possible?
> >
> Not really, no - DVD subtitles are stored as images on the disc.  This
> means outputting to srt would require an OCR step.  This can be done but
> it's far from foolproof (the fonts used differ from disc to disc and
> they also often switch between italic and plain text).
>
> I use the attached script to get srt files out from a DVD.  It requires
> transcode, aspell, subtitleripper and some OCR software (I use gocr).
> It's a pretty manual process in the end though.
>
> HTH,
>         Robin
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