Extract - Hardsub From Video

Generally sits around 90-95% . You will almost always need a quick manual pass to fix punctuation or specialized names.

If you’re comfortable with command-line tools, you can build your own extractor: extract hardsub from video

A — Quick/dirty: crop or cover

Stylized fonts, artistic subtitles, non-Latin scripts. Generally sits around 90-95%

Because hardsubs are technically part of the video frames, extracting them requires Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and unusual fonts.

AI models are slower but significantly more robust against noisy backgrounds, bleeding colors, and unusual fonts.