Subtitle question? (Convert .sup —> .ass)

[tdm17mn]

Hi guys, I have some Japanese language .sup files that I need to be able to copy and paste the text from, but I don't know how to convert the images from within the file to text? Is OCR my only option? It seems like OCR is impossible for Japanese files (didn't work well the first time I tried it years ago...)

Is there any other way? Thank you very much.

[JohnFlower]

Try tesseract. It's in Subtitle Edit. If that fails then yeah, you're out of luck.

[Hark0n]

1 hour ago, JohnFlower said:

Try tesseract. It's in Subtitle Edit. If that fails then yeah, you're out of luck.

^ This.

Tesseract offers quite a few language options and works decant - there is a notable amount of errors, but any OCR process does have them. You will still need to check the script to make sure it is correct.

 

Alternatively, it is possible to extract images from subs (tool like BDSup2Sub can do that) and run through any general OCR tool (like ABBYY FineReader) and add the resulting text into script.

 

A bit different option would be to search for already OCRed or transcribed subs. Japanese subs for some anime are available at kitsunekko.net and some releases (usually from Chinese groups) at www.nyaa.se might have them in text format as well.

[kojiroryuga]

try http://download.videohelp.com/DVDSubEdit/

 

i use it to ripp subtitles from dvd and blu-ray, it have an automatic OCR you just have to read a second time to verify minors errors