Subtitle Extractor for Android

11 things about Subtitle Extractor

1. Hard subtitles are part of the video itself (superimposed text), they cannot be removed or extracted, while Soft Subtitles are rendered as a separate track in a video file and not part of the video itself, so it can be switched ON/OFF and thus can be extracted.

2. Closed Captions are usually inter-weaved in a video stream itself during a broadcast to aid hearing impaired viewers, while subtitles are generally used to aid viewers who don't understand the language.

3. When a movie is ripped from Blu-ray/DVD disc, soft subtitles are kept, most of the time, they are not saved in Text-based files.

4. ● Ability to extract only the needed subtitle if multiple language subtitles are present.

5. ● Converts Image-Based subtitles present in DVD and Blu-ray RIPs to Text-Based subtitles using OCR Technology.

6. So OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology is needed to convert Image-Based subtitles to Text-Based.

7. ● Extracts all the different language subtitles and saves them as separate .SRT files.

8. ● Supports basically any video file that contains subtitles.

9. The problem is that iDevices and QuickTime are not able to read VobSub or PGS subtitles.

10. ● OCR is supported for most widely used subtitle languages such as English, Danish, Dutch, German, French, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Russian and many more.

11. With VobSub and PGS, each subtitle is an image that will be displayed on top of the video.