On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:27:24 +0200, Christian.Wasserthal wrote: > "media-video/subtitleripper". This program is designed to convert the > image-subtitles to text-subtitles (srt format). It's using a program for > (handwritten) text recognition,
The techi term for it is OCR (Optical Char Recognition). > and requires alot of corrections. I thought so, so I didn't give it a try. > Now to the interesting part. > I decided to write my own application to do the job, and it worked out > very good. Better than I expected. So I decided to release it. Really, that's very interesting. thanks a lot for sharing. Could you shed more light onto it please? Ie. - What kind of OCR mechanism are you using? - I haven't tried it, but I see that you're using the Java Swing interface. Does it require many user interaction? Any way to automate the process? - Does your sub2text depend on some dictionary to do the auto correction? - Any error report for mis-spelled words, etc? - Would it work for other languages than English? > You can > download it from sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sub2text/ It > is however the first time I release or even work on a public project. thanks a lot. tong
