On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 00:32 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Since I’m currently working on extracting hardcoded subtitles from some video
> files, I needed an application to do this. I quickly found SubRip[0], but it 
> is,
> unfortunately, only available for Windows.

Check that there's no teletext/videotext/closed captioning first - you
don't need OCR in that case.

I've yet to use any open source OCR package that has been less effort
than rekeying -- commercial OCR software is workable though.  I don't
know if the abby finereader API is available for Linux; there are
others, if not.

Liam

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