Release VideOCR v1.4.0-Beta2 · timminator/VideOCR

Highlights:

Adds support for batch processing
Preprocessing step for vfr videos (Mapping) and Step 1 are now multithreaded (e.g. up to 7x performance increase on a 6-Core 5600x).
Adds a progress bar and a status message for better progress indication
Adds ETA calculation for every step
Tasks can now be paused and resumed
The operating system is now prevented from going to sleep while the operation is ongoing
The CLI version can now be run in parallel to process multiple videos at the same time (thanks @Phr33d0m)
ISO 639 Language codes are now added to the subtitle file names. This allows video players to identify the correct subtitle language
Command Line Arguments for the CLI version are now properly validated to provide a user-friendly error message
Adds an option for normalizing traditional chinese to simplified chinese for "Chinese & English" for better results

Fixed an issue where subtitles could merge incorrectly due to substring matches
Fixed an issue where subtitles were not correctly merged for vfr videos depending on the specified merge gap
Fixed usage of wrongly sized image for subtitle position "any" in ssim calculation. This resulted in a performance decrease in previous versions.

The main highlight is the newly added support for PaddleOCR 3.x.x with greatly improved OCR capabilities in more than 40 languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Korean, etc.

Utilizes standalone version of PaddleOCR from https://github.com/timminator/PaddleOCR-Standalone
Linux version requires glibc 2.35 or newer (can be checked by running ldd --version in a terminal)