<p>Automated text extraction from video is still an emerging technology.</p>

<p>There is a Microsoft public preview of <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-video-ocr-public-preview-new-config/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Azure Media OCR</a> that will attempt <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition" rel="nofollow noreferrer">optical character recognition</a> at a configurable sampling rate. Using this tool requires programming knowledge.</p>

<p>Another option is an open source proof of concept from a research paper, <a href="https://github.com/johannpoignant/LOOV" rel="nofollow noreferrer">LOOV</a>. You will need to compile this from source.</p>

<p><a href="https://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2011/02/ocr-video/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This post</a> describes a workflow for automatically extracting screenshots to stills and then running OCR on the stills. You could probably adapt this workflow to other tools besides what are described in the post.</p>

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<p>You might want to look up "OCR" which stands for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Optical Character Recognition</a>. There are many programs that can do it from a still frame. At worst, you could choose specific frames from your movie to pass to such an application.</p>

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<p>In youtube there are videos which includes texts. For example, <div class="youtube-embed"><div>
                <iframe width="640px" height="395px" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U0-zlsHwYXY?start=0"></iframe>
            </div></div>. This video consists of texts, I was wondering if it is possible to get all those texts into a doc or text file. Is there any such program or online service available? </p>

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# How to extract text from video

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-02-04)

In youtube there are videos which includes texts. For example,. This video consists of texts, I was wondering if it is possible to get all those texts into a doc or text file. Is there any such program or online service available?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-02-05. Score: 2

Automated text extraction from video is still an emerging technology.

There is a Microsoft public preview of [Azure Media OCR](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-video-ocr-public-preview-new-config/) that will attempt [optical character recognition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition) at a configurable sampling rate. Using this tool requires programming knowledge.

Another option is an open source proof of concept from a research paper, [LOOV](https://github.com/johannpoignant/LOOV). You will need to compile this from source.

[This post](https://waldo.jaquith.org/blog/2011/02/ocr-video/) describes a workflow for automatically extracting screenshots to stills and then running OCR on the stills. You could probably adapt this workflow to other tools besides what are described in the post.


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### Answer by username_2 on 2017-02-05. Score: 1

You might want to look up "OCR" which stands for [Optical Character Recognition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_character_recognition). There are many programs that can do it from a still frame. At worst, you could choose specific frames from your movie to pass to such an application.


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