SUP to SRT ...Anyone?

[RicardoGomes]

I Want to convert SUP to .SRT. SUbrip give me much trouble because the characters matrix "i" is a "l", etc...

DVDSubEdit is very bad too... The final result its a switch of charcaters as well

Anyone knows a good program?

Thank you

[paglamon]

First convert sup to idx/sub using Subtitle Creator.
Then OCR the sub file with Subrip or Subresync.


You may also try Suprip(for direct sup to srt).

[RicardoGomes]

Ok, first of all, thanks for reply.

I try import the Sup file to subtlitle creator but the program says: Failed! Reading Closed caption failure!

The same to SupRip.

I´ve got the Sup here : megaupload.com/?d=P1J08FWW Can you please covert it to .srt, and explain me how you do that?

[r0lZ]

No matter what program you use to OCR the subpics, it will always be confused by some letters (upper case i and lower case L is the best example). This is why you should run the Post-OCR process (in SubRip), that tries to locate that kind of problem and fix it automatically. Usually, I check also the file with a text editor that has a good dictionary, and I fix the remaining problems manually.

[paglamon]

@RicardoGomes

I could import the SUP file in Subtitle Creator via Tools/Manipulate SUP or VobSub.Then I saved the file as Vobsub(.idx).
Next I OCR-ed the .idx file with Subrip(took 4.5 min.),applied post OCR spelling correction and saved it as .srt.
This file still had some errors in distinguishing i and l in italics.So I opened this in MS Word and did a spell check and finally had a proper file.

So, as r0lz said, there is really no quick way to do this thing.

Here is your .srt file:Ing.zip

[MilesAhead]

For English subs I've had good luck with DVDSubEdit

Run the automatic OCR and export as SRT. Then with a text editor search for the underscore character '_'. Seems if it fails on a line, the line of "text" will look like
"%@$___%/__" but there's almost always an underscore.

Even with PGS subs if I first size down to 720x480 then export as ifo/sup, and feed to DVDSubEdit it works well. Sometimes I have to make a dozen edits manually. But very often it comes out clean.

[paglamon]

With Ricardo's file,I did start with DVDSUbedit. As always,it was lightning fast.But the resultant .srt file had too many OCR errors and would have needed very heavy editing.

[MilesAhead]

With Ricardo's file,I did start with DVDSUbedit. As always,it was lightning fast.But the resultant .srt file had too many OCR errors and would have needed very heavy editing.

I tried the OCR where you type in the ones it can't figure out. I could never get through a session. No matter how many times I told it the character, it asked me for the same one again. Never learned. Guess I was doing something wrong.

But sometimes you get unlucky with DVDSubEdit. It feels like I get about 90% success rate. If I do search and find more than 20 lines with underscores then I settle for idx/sub and just use that.