OCR
PTMuxer provides optional OCR of sup files.
Currently this can be used to ID tracks based on the content.
Enabling requires configuring at least one of two engines.
Tesseract OCR
Tesseract OCR Provides the highest level of language compatibility in PTMuxer.
A downside is that it requires packages on the host system. Meaning that typically root would access would be required on a Linux Box.
Requirements
Visit repo for instrucions on how to install required binaries
However this package does require that tesseract binary be installed on the system
If you don't have sudo or dont want to install the requirements. Then easyocr might be a good choice
Install
You can install the module with
Windows Support
Windows Releases with all required libraries are provided.
They are specific to each python version
https://github.com/simonflueckiger/tesserocr-windows_build/releases
EasyOCR
As the name implies this program is easy to install, and use
It does not provide nearly as many languages as Tesseract. However, it still supports 80+ languages. So you will find that the most popular languages are included.
Windows Support
You may get errors mentioning torch on windows machines
If this happens manually configuration of the torch module may be required
Running this command may fix the issue
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