How To Extract Hardcoded Subtitles From Video Apr 2026

Extract subtitle frames → crop to subtitle region → OCR each frame → merge into a subtitle file.

# 1. Extract all frames (1 frame per second – adjust as needed) ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "fps=1" frame_%04d.png Find your subtitle area using ffplay: ffplay input.mp4 -vf "crop=1920:120:0:400" 3. Crop all frames for f in frame_*.png; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -vf "crop=1920:120:0:400" "cropped_$f" done 4. OCR all cropped frames with Tesseract for f in cropped_*.png; do tesseract "$f" "$f" -l eng --psm 7 done 5. Combine the resulting .txt files into a rough SRT (you'll need a script to deduplicate, add timestamps, etc.) how to extract hardcoded subtitles from video