Scrape Blu-Ray/DVD subtitles and create a .srt on Mac OS X
For a couple of years I have been trying to find a way to take a subtitle track from a DVD or Blu-Ray (which are usually burned images as opposed to text data) and convert it into a text subtitle track that then can be inserted into a m4v or other video format. There were (in my view) only a couple of options. 1) D-Subtitler. - Problem, it's PowerPC only, not Intel 2) Avidemux. - Problem, it doesn't use OCR text recognition therefore almost each character has to be input manually -- and it does a bad job with Blu-Ray subtitles (you have to scale them down via BDSup2Sub and Avidemux has a hard time recognizing glyphs of the same character). 3) Run VMWare/Parallels in order to run a windows program to OCR the subtitles into a .srt. Yesterday I stumbled upon Subtitle Edit made by Nikolaj Olsson. It is a very good (and open source) .NET app to OCR subtitles (it actually uses either Tesseract or Microsoft Office Document Imaging) for the OCR and spellchecking (using Microsoft...