diff --git a/VideoNodes/Helpers/SubtitleHelper.cs b/VideoNodes/Helpers/SubtitleHelper.cs
index c3f6699e..63f693ea 100644
--- a/VideoNodes/Helpers/SubtitleHelper.cs
+++ b/VideoNodes/Helpers/SubtitleHelper.cs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ internal class SubtitleHelper
     /// <param name="codec">the subtitle codec</param>
     /// <returns>true if the subtitle is an image based subtitle</returns>
     internal static bool IsImageSubtitle(string codec)
-        => Regex.IsMatch(codec.Replace("_", ""), "dvbsub|pgs|xsub|vobsub", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
+        => Regex.IsMatch((codec ?? string.Empty).Replace("_", ""), "dvbsub|pgs|xsub|vobsub", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase);
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Determines the appropriate subtitle codec for conversion based on the container type and current subtitle codec.
diff --git a/VideoNodes/VideoNodes.en.json b/VideoNodes/VideoNodes.en.json
index 66b1e4ad..db510c88 100644
--- a/VideoNodes/VideoNodes.en.json
+++ b/VideoNodes/VideoNodes.en.json
@@ -521,7 +521,9 @@
           "SetWorkingFile": "Set as Working File",
           "SetWorkingFile-Help": "When this is checked, if a subtitle is extracted, the working file will be changed to this extracted subtitle.  The original working file will NOT be deleted.",
           "ForcedOnly": "Forced Only",
-          "ForcedOnly-Help": "If only forced subtitles should be extracted."
+          "ForcedOnly-Help": "If only forced subtitles should be extracted.",
+          "OnlyTextSubtitles": "Only Text Subtitles",
+          "OnlyTextSubtitles-Help": "If only text subtitles should be extracted, all image based subtitles will be skipped."
         }
       },
       "VideoHasStream": {
diff --git a/VideoNodes/VideoNodes/SubtitleExtractor.cs b/VideoNodes/VideoNodes/SubtitleExtractor.cs
index f59977f6..0e0ba4b3 100644
--- a/VideoNodes/VideoNodes/SubtitleExtractor.cs
+++ b/VideoNodes/VideoNodes/SubtitleExtractor.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using System.Net;
+using FileFlows.VideoNodes.Helpers;
 
 namespace FileFlows.VideoNodes;
 
@@ -40,7 +41,11 @@ public class SubtitleExtractor : EncodingNode
     /// </summary>
     [Boolean(4)]
     public bool ForcedOnly { get; set; }
-    
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Gets or sets if only text subtitles should be extracted
+    /// </summary>
+    [Boolean(5)]
+    public bool OnlyTextSubtitles { get; set; }
     
     private Dictionary<string, object> _Variables;
     /// <summary>
@@ -75,6 +80,9 @@ public class SubtitleExtractor : EncodingNode
             // ffmpeg -i input.mkv -map "0:m:language:eng" -map "-0:v" -map "-0:a" output.srt
             var subTrack = videoInfo.SubtitleStreams?.Where(x =>
             {
+                if (OnlyTextSubtitles && SubtitleHelper.IsImageSubtitle(x.Codec))
+                    return false;
+
                 if (ForcedOnly && x.Forced == false)
                     return false;
                 if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(Language))
@@ -103,7 +111,7 @@ public class SubtitleExtractor : EncodingNode
             OutputFile = args.MapPath(OutputFile);
 
             string extension = "srt";
-            if (subTrack.Codec?.ToLower()?.Contains("pgs") == true)
+            if (SubtitleHelper.IsImageSubtitle(subTrack.Codec))
                 extension = "sup";
             if (OutputFile.ToLower().EndsWith(".srt") || OutputFile.ToLower().EndsWith(".sup"))
                 OutputFile = OutputFile[0..^4];