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DVD Subtitle Extractor Changelog

What's new in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.3.1

Jan 26, 2013
  • Feature: Option on OCR dialog to wait for Enter key before taking manually typed OCR matches (to allow multi-key character entry)
  • Feature: Option on Options dialog to not automatically remove spaces before ?!;: characters (French keeps such spaces, English does not)
  • Fix: Added several Greek characters to the "do not split automatically" lists because of found OCR errors

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.2.9 (Oct 1, 2012)

  • Feature: Added option to make i and ยก characters movie-specific for improved OCR on Spanish subs (Special Characters tab in Options)
  • Feature: Allow switch to Word Spacing dialog directly from Spell Check dialog
  • Fix: Added more default word spacings for accented characters
  • Fix: Changed Word Spacing dialog to show all OCR'd characters in current sub
  • Fix: Removed application focus grab during OCR
  • Fix: Tightened HD subs fuzzy logic to reduce false matches in small characters
  • Fix: Improved Arrow key selection during OCR

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.2.8 (Aug 3, 2012)

  • Fix: handle padding bytes in IDX files
  • Feature: added "last character matched" feedback after making OCR matches
  • Feature: added support for Thai language accents and punctuation
  • Feature: added left/right/up/down key functions during OCR matching to allow selection of nearby fragments (dots, accents) without using the mouse
  • Feature: changed the OCR Match Review dialog to have less annoying list scrolling and selection behavior

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.2.7 (May 29, 2012)

  • Fix: out-of-memory exception when reading DVDs with very large (over 1GB) cells
  • Fix: AltGr key toggling Italics during OCR
  • Feature: use centered alignment SSA tag for centered text in the upper part of the frame
  • Feature: increased number of subtitle tracks visible in Choose Subtitles step listbox
  • Feature: allow change of palette for entire movie

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.2.6 (Mar 12, 2012)

  • Fix: multi-colored bluray subs will no longer result in black blob for OCR
  • Fix: dvds with no language specified will not cause exception in name creation of subtitle files
  • Fix: Root directory Dvds will use volume label as their directory name

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.2.5 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Feature: Improved Create Subtitle File page usability
  • Feature: Added option to keep the original line breaks (but not positions) of the source subtitles
  • Fix: Restored a forced space between italic and non-italic alphabetic characters
  • Feature: Added tooltips to most controls
  • Fix: icon always visible

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.2.2 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Feature: New fuzzy logic OCR reduces manual matches required by 50-90% (for High Def (BluRay) subtitle files only)
  • Feature: Improved user interface for manually entering OCR matches (just hit the character)
  • Feature: Backspace key now acts as Undo during OCR
  • Feature: Space key now toggles Italics on/off
  • Feature: OCR window now with highlight border when Italics on
  • Fix: Improved the left kerning adjustment on left italic double quote characters
  • Fix: Improved auto-split when 1 letter is an 'r'
  • Fix: Restored "Restart OCR from beginning" functions, but now on the OCR Review dialog instead of the main window
  • Fix: OCR Review dialog now sorted by height for improved visual pattern matching

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.2.1 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Feature: Allow OcrMap.bin file to be placed in same directory as EXE
  • Feature: Choose Subtitle dialog directory remembered while app is up
  • Feature: Allow Save As when creating Subtitle files (initial directory is remembered)
  • Feature: Allow resizing of all main window dialogs
  • Fix: Issue Id #682 (Dynamically generating the expected baseline and top offsets for characters. This fixes the problem of manually entered characters not in character selector incorrectly being put on a different line or marked as baseline incorrect. )
  • Fix: Another group of SDH Removal fixes

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.2.0 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Feature: added "baseline double quotes" character to selector box
  • Feature: added option to save SRT files as ANSI (instead of previous UTF-8 only)
  • Feature: made "Save Sup files to Source directory" apply to both Sup and Idx source files.
  • Fix: removed SDH text (...) or [...] that is split over 2 lines
  • Fix: better decision-making in when to prefix a line with a '-' because SDH was removed

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.1.9 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Fix: manual entry remembers if last character was italic
  • Fix: idx file parsing error

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.1.8 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Feature: Better focus control for OCR manual entry
  • Fix: DVD subtitle durations were too short in some cases due to sub format parsing error

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.1.7 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Feature: During manual entry of OCR matches, set the Default button (which is activated by the Enter key) to either Normal or Italic buttons based on which was used most recently

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.1.6 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Feature: added option to display subtitle scaled to video in Choose Subtitle step
  • Feature: increased size of OCR step and Word Spacing step windows
  • Feature: added version to titlebar
  • Fix: SDH text removal now understands a change of speaker has occurred when 1 line has a - and the other has SDH text at the start
  • Fix: rounding of timestamps to nearest millisecond now improved
  • Fix: spell checking of words beginning with ' character improved

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.1.5 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Feature: Left-align instead of Center-align positioned text when creating ASS files because it looks better, especially if some characters are removed by SDH Removal option
  • Feature: Allow multi-selection of sup and idx files on Choose Subtitles step to allow easier batch processing of multiple source files. "OCR Next Encoded Title" button on Create Subtitle File step moves to next file automatically.

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.1.4 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Fix: SDH removal fixed so that lines from different speakers (as indicated by SDH) will be indicated by hyphen - character after SDH is removed

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.1.3 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Feature: Added SDH Removal to ASS file type output

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.1.2 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Feature: Added option to store .sup file results in same directory as source
  • Feature: Added "em dash" and several Greek characters to character selector
  • Feature: Added optional "SDH Removal" to remove hearing-impaired specific text. (feature supported for SRT files only this release)
  • Fix: Some corrections for separating default (centered, bottom screen) text and positioned text
  • Fix: Removed unnecessary suffix to file names for .sup file sources
  • Fix: Improved the algorithm to find spaces between words

New in DVD Subtitle Extractor 1.0.1.1 (Dec 9, 2011)

  • Fix: Adding a character manually which is not in the character ocr selection box would silently throw an exception and stop forward progress.