garret1317 / make-softsub

quick and dirty script to OCR hardsubs into softsubs with videosubfinder. isn't good, but works.

make-softsub

quick'n dirty script to OCR hardsubs into softsubs.

Requirements

• VideoSubFinder (unfortunately windows-only) in PATH
• Tesseract OCR - windows builds

Usage

./make-softsub.sh input.mkv output.ass

The powershell script and the bash script both do the same things in the same ways, so it doesn't matter which one you use. The only real difference is the bash script was written first because that's what I'm more comfortable with.

Outputs to SRT and ASS. ASS is reccomended due to more accurate timing, and the fact that it's probably what you use anyway.

New directories will be created in your current working directory by VideoSubFinder. Don't run multiple instances of the script at the same time in the same directory, or they'll conflict with each other.

Border for VideoSubFinder to detect in is hardcoded because I can't be asked to add a flag for it.

WARNING: THERE IS NO ERROR HANDLING IN THIS SCRIPT. IT WILL NOT COMPLAIN IF ONE OF THE ARGUMENTS IS MISSING, SO MAKE DAMN SURE YOU GOT THE COMMAND RIGHT.

Also, beware of OCR errors. Do a full QC pass

todo: make it good (will happen the next time i need to ocr something)

make-softsub's Issues

Unexpected characters following option create_sub_from_txt_results'.

First, thank you for the tool

The program worked well, created the images, and extracted the text, but I had this problem, seems when the program will generate the subtitle file: