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Paddy97
21st November 2010, 09:47
http://www.nikse.dk/

Subtitle Edit v3.0 with the latest tesseract engine for OCR of DVD and Bluray subtitles have been released. I've been testing it myself and find it a gigant leap ahead compared to last generations OCR engines.

This version features a new layout with optional video player and/or wave form in the main window. Help file updated!

Change log:

* New: Wave form control with many sync/replay/creation commands (thx for feedback Kerensky)
* New: Translator mode (Edit -> Show original subtitle, thx dr. jackson)
* New: Added Microsoft translate
* New: Import and OCR Blu-ray .sup files (bd sup reading is based on Java code from BDSup2Sub by 0xdeadbeef - thx)
* New: Option to remove blank lines when opening a subtitle (thx honeybunny)
* New: Can now read/write subtitles in the binary EBU format (thx corbin dallas/Iban)
* New: Can now read/write subtitle Sony DVD Architecht format (thx Mark/Zedopipo)
* New: Setting "Font name" is possible via right-click menu in list view
* Improved: Layout changed - Translation helper + Create/adjust lines moved to main window
* Improved: Ripping subtitles from DVD should now have correct time codes (thx JeanlDvd/DvdSubEdit + gioni666)
* Improved: Ripping subtitles from DVD/Vobsub files now has a an option to only ocr "forced subtitles" (thx Rolf)
* Improved: Ripping subtitles from Vobsub files now has an option to use time codes from idx file (now default)
* Imrpoved: Upgraded Tesseract 2.x to 3.0
* Improved: Can now retrieve and install spell check dictionaries from the internet (thx dr.jackson for idea + Jaime Olivares for zip unpack code + thx Pierre for testing)
* Improved: "Compare subtitle" color high-lighting is now more like other compare programs
* Improved: Fix common erors - Fix alone lowercase 'i' to 'I' now works better close to html tags (thx Chamallow)
* Improved: Updated names list (thx Chamallow)
* Improved: "Google translate" window is now resizable (thx Kerensky)
* Improved: Bold/italic/font tags now work better in ssa/ass subtitles
* Improved: Icons are now external in the "Icons" folder - you can change them easily yourself without re-compiling (thx 6205)
* Improved: New toolbar icons from gnome-look.org with some customization (thx 6205)
* Bugfix: Merge short lines now works with italic tags (thx honeybunny)
* Bugfix: Importing subtitles from Matroska files will now correctly change current encoding to UTF-8 (thx Jonathan)
* Bugfix: Numerous fixes in "Remove text for hearing impaired" (thx sialivi, eMWu, honeybunny, aMvEL)
* Bugfix: Tools -> Append subtitle without syncronizing (thx Les)
* Bugfix: Fixed bug in "Spell check -> Add to names/etc list" (thx dny238)
* Bugfix: Fixed crash in "Auto balance selected lines" (thx Jonathan)
* Bugfix: Fixed crash in "Replace all"
* Bugfix: Fixed bug in "time control" (thx eMWu)
* Bugfix: Resume spell check now works better (thx Kerensky)
* Bugfix: "Save as" now changes current subtitle format
* Bugfix: OCR spell check - Add-to-user-dictionary now works