Convert SRT into Text

srt2txt.pl

#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
# srt2txt - Convert SRT into Text
#
# Seungwon Jeong <seungwon0@gmail.com>
#
# Copyright (C) 2012 by Seungwon Jeong
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see
# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

use strict;

use warnings;

use English qw< -no_match_vars >;

use HTML::Strip;

local $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR = q{};

my $hs = HTML::Strip->new();

while ( defined( my $input = <> ) ) {
    # Remove subtitle number and start/end time
    $input =~ s{\A \d+ \n [\d:,]+ [ ]-->[ ] [\d:,]+ \n}{}xms;

    # Strip HTML-like markup
    $input = $hs->parse($input);
    $hs->eof();

    print $input;
}