auto PGS to SRT convertion

93 votes

many mkv movies have PGS subtitles inside from a Bluray rip with the required languages we need, but PGS is a image-based subtitle, when in some cases is not compatible with some plex players, etc. To create a SRT sub from PGS is necessary a OCR. I found a project https://github.com/Tentacule/PgsToSrt that make this possible, but integrate this feature into bazarr could help a lot of people and save time searching the best and correct sub from a lot of providers

Under consideration Suggested by: franchixco (12 Jun, '20) • Upvoted: 21 Mar • Comments: 7

Comments: 7

20 Feb, '21
Ricardo C
PGS sucks also for web browsers like Firefox +1
09 Dec, '21
vitiko
Most OCR data models are above 1GB. That's an exaggerate size for just one feature in a program.
24 Apr, '22
Nonobis
+1 i have old tv show (alf ... for sample) with only sub in image subtitle ...
07 Aug, '23
patbowling89
I dont want to open a new feature request as this one is also here but I would also like to have this feature but with ASS subs as well, since ASS subs dont work on all devices and I have some movies with those type of subs and I always go and download them in bazarr to have them in SRT but would be nice if we could automatically ask bazarr to download the embedded ASS
07 Aug, '23
morpheus65535 Admin
@patbowling89 this already exist in Bazarr. It's called embeddedsubtitles provider.
29 Feb
vertigo235
PGS to SRT doesn't seem to exist in the embedded subtitles provider, it only does text based subtitles. I feel like it should be easy to implement this ? https://github.com/Tentacule/PgsToSrt
29 Feb
morpheus65535 Admin
That's .Net, we do Python.

There's no plan to implement OCR. Anyway, result are typically bad at best.