Lucky me, I have purchased a subscription of ABBYY FineReader for years because of its powerful AI-based OCR technology. At this point, we have to use some image to text recognition software for OCR process. DO NOT close the program and go to the next step.Īlso Read: Extract Subtitles from DVD | MKV Subtitle Extractor | Merge Subtitles with Videos | Auto Subtitle Generators After done, it will produce a number of large cleared image sequences with text in the TXTImages folder of VideoSubFinder root directory, e.g.

When the process is finished, switch to OCR tab and click on ' Create Cleared TXT Images'. Then press ' Run Search' button to autodetect the hardsubs. To precisely frame the area where the subtitle appears in the video, drag down the tiny black sliders as shown in the screenshot below to eliminate redundant video screen part. After importing the video file, drag the slider along the progress bar to locate the subtitle position (it generally displays on the bottom).

As an aside, this program supports major video formats, however, if your video file type is not supported, try to convert it with some free video converter programs. Run ' VideoSubFinderWXW.exe', click on ' File' and select ' Open Video (OpenCV)' to import the video file embedded with hardsubs. Since this program requires ' Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 20' installed on the PC, to avoid any error message, we have to install it beforehand via. Download and install VideoSubFinder here. VideoSubFinder is a free program that allows you to autodetect a video frame by frame and extract hardcoded subtitles to a series of image grabs with text based on text mining algorithms for further OCR process.

How to remove hardcoded subtitles