Once there was a film archivist named Elias who had a problem: a rare 1970s documentary with no original script and subtitles "burned" directly into the grainy film. To the average viewer, those hardsubs were just part of the picture. To Elias, they were trapped data.
software because the text is part of the video frames, not a separate data stream. Unlike "softsubs" (which can be toggled and easily extracted via tools like
Workflow A — Extract text from hardsubs (OCR -> .srt)
- Inspect and sample