VidSubX

A free program that extracts hard coded subtitles from a video and generates an external subtitle file.

<img src="docs/images/gui%20screenshot.png" width="500">

Features

• Detect subtitle area by searching common area.
• Manual resize or change of subtitle area (click and drag mouse to perform).
• Single and Batch subtitle detection and extraction.
• Start and Stop subtitle extraction positions can be selected (use arrow keys for precise selection).
• Switch between Light and Dark Mode under the View menu.
• Resize video display (Zoom In (Ctrl+Plus), Zoom Out (Ctrl+Minus)).
• Non subtitle area of the video can be hidden to limit spoilers.
• An Nvidia GPU can be used to speed up the extraction of the subtitles.
• Auto optimization for CPU config for best performance.
• The released copies can be run without having python installed.
• Toast Notification available on Windows upon completion of subtitle detection and extraction.
• Preferences docs available for modification of options when extraction subtitles.
• Multiple languages supported through PaddleOCR. They will be automatically downloaded as needed.

Supported languages and Abbreviations

Generated subtitles can be translated with this script or SubtitleEdit.

Download

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable must be installed. The program will not start without it.

• Latest CPU & GPU Version

Demo Video

Setup Instructions

Download and Install:

Latest Version of Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

Install packages

For GPU

pip install -r requirements-gpu.txt

For CPU

pip install -r requirements-cpu.txt

Note: onnxruntime and onnxruntime-gpu should not both be installed at the same time.

For Linux

sudo apt install python3-tk

Run gui.py to use Graphical interface and main.py to use Terminal.

Compile Instructions

For Linux

sudo apt install binutils

Run compiler.py to build compiled program