Re: Subtitle extraction via OCR

[Mathias Brodala <info noctus net>]

Hi Liam.

(You don’t need to CC me, I’m subscribed.)

Liam R E Quin, 31.07.2007 00:52:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 00:32 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:
>> Since I’m currently working on extracting hardcoded subtitles from some
>> video files, I needed an application to do this. I quickly found SubRip[0],
>> but it is, unfortunately, only available for Windows.
> 
> Check that there's no teletext/videotext/closed captioning first - you don't
> need OCR in that case.

The subtitles from the original video files are directly hardcoded into the
video part. Unrecoverable without OCR, since there is no other textual material
delivered.

> I've yet to use any open source OCR package that has been less effort than
> rekeying -- commercial OCR software is workable though.

Hm, is libgocr that bad? (As an example.)

> I don't know if the abby finereader API is available for Linux;

Seems like[2]:

> ABBYY FineReader SDKs […]  provide developers with an Application Programming
> Interface (API) for integrating the functionality of ABBYY FineReader into
> applications built for Windows or Linux platforms.


Regards, Mathias

[2] http://www.abbyy.com/for_developers/

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