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Remove formatting tags from subtitles

Some TVs, players and editors show tags such as <i>, <font color="#ffff00"> or {\an8} as text on the screen. Strip them and keep only the clean text and its timing.

How to use it

1

Load your subtitle file.

2

Choose which tags to remove; you can keep italics.

3

Download the cleaned file.

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Questions and answers

Why do I see <i> or {\an8} on my TV?

Your player does not understand the tag and shows it as text. HTML tags come from SRT files, codes in curly brackets from ASS files.

What do these tags do?

<i>, <b> and <u> make text italic, bold or underlined, <font> sets a colour or font, and ASS codes such as {\an8} move the line to the top of the screen or add effects.

Is the timing changed?

No, only the text is cleaned. Lines left empty are removed.

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