Text-Grab VS PgsToSrt

For example PowerOCR [which is "Based on https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab"] . There's an exe file for it, but it doesnt do anything if run manually.

I know MS has a powertool that does this but it turns out it's just based on this software called Text Grab by Joe Finney, the same dev as Caffeinated - https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab

There's also text grab https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab

Or get the standalone app (also by Joseph Finney) - https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab/releases/tag/v3.0

Also I haven't looked too much into the code but windows 10/11 seems to have a built in OCR for the languages you have installed. Text grab (https://github.com/TheJoeFin/Text-Grab) uses the API so it could be a nice alternative to using a cloud based soution and it's free.

Pgs is not a format I've seen used anywhere personally, but it looks like there's a pgs->srt converter on github: https://github.com/Tentacule/PgsToSrt

dvd_subtitle and PGS are more difficult since they are image based, converting image to text requires OCR, I only know off PgsToSrt that does this but this makes it more difficult to use with tdarr since it requires you to use this third party tool.

I use https://github.com/Tentacule/PgsToSrt For me, it's been faster and easier.

I just finished doing this for my collection yesterday. I used PgsToSRT to convert them to SRT files from MKVs. The OCR was pretty close and when I notice any errors that I care enough to fix I use Subtitles it to fix them. I avoided the SubtitleEdit batch feature for conversion mainly because it was slow.