Caption Cleanup

Quick and dirty scripts to assist with caption and subtitle cleanup work after the subtitles or captions have been extracted and converted to .srt text files.

These are AppleScript scripts intended to work with BBEdit. Download and store in your \Library\Application Support\BBEdit\Scripts\ folder to use from BBEdit's Script menu.

I'm not very knowledagble in scripting or github, so don't expect much. I just tossed these together to do what I needed. If they help someone else? Bonus!

Caption Cleanup

Used for cleaning Closed Caption sources that use standard capitalization.

In order:

• straightens quotes (from “curly quotes” to "straight quotes")
• removes multiple spaces used to force text placement location (so lines don't look like this )
• fixes spaces inside italic tags and parentheses (to correct for <i> this </i> or ( this ))
• educates quotes (from "straight quotes" to “curly quotes”)
• fixes leading apostrophes for abbreviated words (from ‘cause to ’cause) and decades (from ‘50s to ’50s) or years (from ‘73 to ’73)
• saves the file

Caption Cleanup CAPS

Used for cleaning Closed Caption sources that use ALL CAPS.

In order:

• straightens quotes (from “curly quotes” to "straight quotes")
• changes the case of all text to capitalize sentences; because of the formatting of .srt files, this will not properly capitalize all sentences, and a manual final pass is necessary
• removes multiple spaces used to force text placement location (so lines don't look like this )
• fixes spaces inside italic tags and parentheses (to correct for <i> this </i> or ( this ))
• corrects capitalization of most first-person singular "I" instances (such as "I", "I'd", "I'll", etc.); this may not catch all instances
• educates quotes (from "straight quotes" to “curly quotes”)
• fixes leading apostrophes for abbreviated words (from ‘cause to ’cause) and decades (from ‘50s to ’50s) or years (from ‘73 to ’73)
• saves the file

Abbrev Apostrophe Fix

Just the abbreviation leading apostrophe fix.

In order:

• educates quotes (from "straight quotes" to “curly quotes”)
• fixes leading apostrophes for abbreviated words (from ‘cause to ’cause) and decades (from ‘50s to ’50s) or years (from ‘73 to ’73)

Common OCR Fixes

Used for cleaning PGS or VobSub sources that have been OCR'd.

In order:

• replaces the fl and fi ligatures with fl and fi, respectively
• corrects the following errors:
  • ofthe to of the
  • ofall to of all
  • Ijust to I just
  • ? and ! to ? and !
• ...and quite a bit more as I find regular patterns.