This is a collection of scripts that other Japanese learners who use a similar workflow to me may find helpful. I add features/tweak the code as I find bugs, or think of more functionality.

Subtitle hook, grabs text-based subtitles and puts them in your clipboard. This is meant mainly to work with text-based formats like .srt, .ass, and the like.

• Picture-based (DVD) subtitle hook (think PGS subs, subtitles hardcoded into a DVD, etc.) Or anything onscreen.

This uses pytesseract, a Python wrapper for Google's Tesseract OCR library. Therefore, make sure to follow the install guide in its README.

Your mileage may vary on a ton of factors:

• how much is onscreen at any given moment
• clarity of background
• pixelation of subtitles (this can be a problem when watching DVDs)