Strange OCR with DVDsubedit

[Patapin]

Hello !



I used DVDsubedit to transform a sup file into srt, but this is the kind of characters that I got :


,_3;_!r;_, r_' ___,;;_'r í__ _ííj__ í';_!r_r_í;1__r_,;;;_!ír__


Isn't it strange ?


My DVD, the beautiful Ram aur Shyam (1957) was ripped with DVDFab HD Decrypter 4.Then I demuxed the streams with Vobedit.


Now I wanted the french subtitles.


When I opened the sup 0x21 with DVDsubedit, I could read the good captions on the screen, but when I used the OCR, the result was that incomprehensible characters.


How can I do ?


Thanks by advance.

[Baldrick]

I would try ocr with something else like subtitle edit.

[videobruger]

For SubtitleEdit you should install the french dictionary and Tesseract. The dictionary can be installed from SE.

Use the portable version of SE - for the installer version you'll have to install in %appdata%\subtitleedit\tessract\tessdata

[manono]

My DVD, the beautiful Ram aur Shyam (1957) was ripped with DVDFab HD Decrypter 4.

You mean 1967, don't you? Starring Dilip Kumar and Waheeda Rehman? There's a decent version of the film on a French DVD? My NTSC one really sucks.

[leghorn]

When it comes to ripping subs from a DVD I resort to VSRip. Lovely tool.
For PGSs from blurays I use BDSup2Sub and convert them to VobSub idx/sub.

Quite easy, and all of my devices play them subs just fine So no need to bother for srt.

[Patapin]

Hello everybody !

Thank you for your posts, and for thelinks you put, too. I’ll try to answer to everyone.

I would try ocrwith something else like

subtitleedit.

For

SubtitleEdityoushould install the french dictionary nd Tesseract. The dictionarycan be installed from SE.

Use the portableversion of SE - for the installer version you'll have to install in%appdata%\subtitleedit\tessract\tessdata

Actually, I tried this OCR, and found itvery slow, and not so much convenient. Too many time and work to do.
I would use it only on the last resort. ButI keep it anyway, we never know !

When it comes toripping subs from a DVD I resort to

VSRip. Lovely tool.
For PGSs fromblurays I use BDSup2Subandconvert them to VobSubidx/sub.

Quite easy, and allof my devices play them subs just fine Sono need to bother for srt.

This one I didn’t know : VSRip. Thanksfor the tip, I’ll try it.

You mean 1967, don'tyou? Starring Dilip Kumar and Waheeda Rehman? There's a decent version of thefilm on a French DVD? My NTSC one really sucks.

You’re right, it’sthe 1967’s movie. I bought mine at singingcinema.com http://www.singingcinema.com/fr/films-bollywood/2799-ram-aur-shyam-dvd.html
It's a Spark edition.
Images are good, but sometimes too blue, sometimes too red. Well, it's an old movie !

French subtitles are not very good,but correct ; the english ones seem good.
For booth of them, some sentences aremissing sometimes. If you speak hindi a little, you can hear some words thatare not written, but I think it doesn’t matter.

My purpose is to extract the frenchsubtitles, work on them to have a good quality, and them rebuild the DVD.

Have a nice day !

[videobruger]

itvery slow, and not so much convenient

Perhaps you havn't your Tesseract data?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJvU6WOBMkQ

[Patapin]

When it comes to ripping subs from a DVD I resort to VSRip. Lovely tool.
For PGSs from blurays I use BDSup2Sub and convert them to VobSub idx/sub.

Quite easy, and all of my devices play them subs just fine So no need to bother for srt.

Hello leghorn
Nice tool this VSrip. Looks like Vobsub.
Very easy to install ! And to handle too. But I haven't tried to convert the idx to srt yet.

itvery slow, and not so much convenient

Perhaps you havn't your Tesseract data?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJvU6WOBMkQ

Thans for the link, videobruger I followed the tutorial, and Subtitle Edit made the work : now I have my french Ram-aur-Shyam.srt (but it took about 4 hours to OCR the sup... Isn't that a bit long ?)

[videobruger]

but it took about 4 hours to OCR the sup... Isn't that a bit long

That's extremely long. For a typical movie with 1000-1500 subtitles with prompt for unknown words (I usually add names of characters in the movie and the like to the user dictionary so I'm only prompted once) I would say up to 15 min.

[leghorn]

Why do you insist on srt? Idx/sub is just as good, and you don't have issues with typos or formatting... I found it to be a PiTA converting image-based subs (like VobSub or PGS) to srt. That's why I stick to VSRip and BDSup2Sub.

[johns0]

Lots of blu-ray players will not read image based subs when playing mkv,avi etc... so srt is the only choice,might be what the op is trying to do.

[Patapin]

Well, I worked with srt since I began, I'm used to it. Someday, I'll buy a Blu-Ray writer, so it will change my life.But for the moment, I want the better images possible, so I demux the VOB, I rewrite the subtitles, convert srt to sup with subtile creator, and re-author a DVD with ifoedit or rejig.


And I don't understand a thing about idx, sub, or PiTA (???). And most of all, BDsup2sub works with Java, that I don't want on my PC.

[videobruger]

PITA

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=PITA

[leghorn]

There's a standalone version of BDSup2Sub which does not require Java...

[Patapin]

Thanks !

Still the problem remains : why did I have those strange characters ?


But with your helps, I managed to get a srt that is correct (see the attachment file), so now I can work on it, thanks !

[Patapin]

I didn't find the standalone version, but never mind leghorn, I'll do differently

[leghorn]

On the program page under Information
Here's the direct link https://www.videohelp.com/download/bdsup2sub++102a_win32.7z

[Patapin]

Thank you very much !

[jagabo]

Still the problem remains : why did I have those strange characters ?

Because your player doesn't support ASCII characters above 127 (0x7F) ? Or you have the wrong code page loaded.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317752%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

[Patapin]

Hello jagabo !

This is a very precise answer, thanks.
Now, what can I do, I don't know, but it doesn't matter : I've got the srt.


Thanks everyone for your help