Extract subtitles from a video

Pull an embedded soft subtitle track out of an MKV or MP4 and save it as a clean SRT file, all in your browser with no upload. This tool is coming soon.

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What people use it for

Once a subtitle track is sitting inside your video, getting it back out as plain text is the hard part. This tool pulls a soft, selectable subtitle track into an SRT file, all in your browser. It does not work on hardcoded or burned-in captions, since those are part of the picture and cannot be read as text.

Get the SRT out of an MKV

That MKV you downloaded carries a soft subtitle track, but your player or editor will not let you save it on its own. Drop the file here and pull the selectable track out as a clean SRT you can keep.

Edit captions in a text editor

You spotted a few typos and bad line breaks in the subtitles and want to fix them by hand. Get the SRT out, open it in any text editor, and correct the wording and timing yourself. This reads the soft track only, not text burned into the video.

Hand captions to a translator

Your translator needs the words and timecodes, not the whole video file. Export the SRT and send just that, so they can drop in a second language without touching the footage.

Reuse a track on another platform

You already captioned a clip and now you are reposting it to YouTube or Vimeo. Pull the existing SRT and upload it as the caption file instead of typing everything again. Works only when the original captions are a real subtitle track, not painted onto the frame.

Archive subtitles on their own

You want to keep a small text backup of your captions next to the video, or store them separately for later. An SRT is a few kilobytes of plain text, easy to save, search, and version.

Soft tracks only, never burned in

This pulls out embedded, selectable subtitles, the kind you can toggle on and off in a player. If the text is hardcoded into the picture, like most TikTok or Reels captions, there is no track to extract and this tool will not find one.