Beginner Tutorial
Introduction¶
Considering that most people who extract video subtitles are not programmers, in order to lower the threshold of use, we hereby launch the GUI version of RapidVideOCR Desktop.
RapidVideOCR Desktop needs to be used with VideoSubFinder. The relationship between the two is shown in the figure below:
flowchart LR
A[VideoSubFinder] -- Extract subtitle keyframes --> B[RapidVideOCR] -- OCR --> C(SRT)
VideoSubFinder Tutorial (in Chinese)¶
RapidVideOCR Desktop Tutorial¶
Step 1: Download the RapidVideOCR Desktop release archive for your corresponding platform¶
- Download the latest version from Github
- Download from QQ Group shared file, QQ Group number: 706807542, or scan the QR code to join:

Step 2: Uncompress the zip archive, and double-click RapidVideOCR.exe
(using Windows for example)¶
Step 3: The GUI is shown below¶

Step 4: Introduction to each part of the GUI¶
RapidVideOCR:
- Image Directory (图像目录): Points to the RGBImages or TXTImages directory generated by VideoSubFinder,must be one of the two directories
- Output Directory (保存路径): Where to save the converted results,including srt files, ass files, and txt files
- Overlay Recognition (叠图识别): After checking, the recognition speed will be faster. The accuracy may be lower
VideoSubFinder + RapidVideOCR:
- VSF exe path: The full path to the locally installed VideoSubFinder executable, for example:
G:\ProgramFiles\VideoSubFinder_6.10_x64\Release_x64\VideoSubFinderWXW.exe
- Video path: The path to where the video to extract hard subtitles from is located
- Output directory:The directory where the extraction results are saved