diff --git a/src/Forms/VobSubNOcrEdit.cs b/src/Forms/VobSubNOcrEdit.cs
index 504f84cb8..672ecb7dc 100644
--- a/src/Forms/VobSubNOcrEdit.cs
+++ b/src/Forms/VobSubNOcrEdit.cs
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-using System;
+using Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Logic;
+using Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Logic.OCR;
+using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.Drawing;
 using System.Windows.Forms;
-using Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Logic;
-using Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Logic.OCR;
 
 namespace Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms
 {
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ namespace Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms
     {
 
         private List<NOcrChar> _nocrChars;
-        private NOcrChar _nocrChar = null;
+        private NOcrChar _nocrChar;
         private double _zoomFactor = 5.0;
         bool _drawLineOn;
         bool _startDone;
@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ namespace Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms
         private bool IsMatch()
         {
             NikseBitmap nbmp = new NikseBitmap(pictureBoxCharacter.Image as Bitmap);
-            var bmp = pictureBoxCharacter.Image as Bitmap;
             foreach (NOcrPoint op in _nocrChar.LinesForeground)
             {
                 foreach (Point point in op.ScaledGetPoints(_nocrChar, nbmp.Width, nbmp.Height))
@@ -453,13 +452,14 @@ namespace Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms
         {
             int importedCount = 0;
             int notImportedCount = 0;
-            openFileDialog1.Filter = "nOCR files|nOCR_*.xml";
+            openFileDialog1.Filter = "nOCR files|*.nocr";
             openFileDialog1.InitialDirectory = Configuration.DataDirectory;
             openFileDialog1.FileName = string.Empty;
             openFileDialog1.Title = "Import existing nOCR database into current";
             if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog(this) == DialogResult.OK)
             {
-                foreach (NOcrChar newChar in VobSubOcr.LoadNOcr(openFileDialog1.FileName))
+                NOcrDb newDb = new NOcrDb(openFileDialog1.FileName);
+                foreach (NOcrChar newChar in newDb.OcrCharacters)
                 {
                     bool found = false;
                     foreach (NOcrChar oldChar in _nocrChars)
diff --git a/src/Forms/VobSubOcr.cs b/src/Forms/VobSubOcr.cs
index 2ebca4109..4dcca3725 100644
--- a/src/Forms/VobSubOcr.cs
+++ b/src/Forms/VobSubOcr.cs
@@ -4191,45 +4191,6 @@ namespace Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms
             }
         }      
 
-        public static List<NOcrChar> LoadNOcr(string fileName)
-        {
-            var nocrChars = new List<NOcrChar>();
-            if (File.Exists(fileName))
-            {
-                try
-                {
-                    var doc = new XmlDocument();
-                    doc.Load(fileName);
-                    foreach (XmlNode node in doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("Char"))
-                    {
-                        var oc = new NOcrChar(node.Attributes["Text"].Value);
-                        oc.Width = Convert.ToInt32(node.Attributes["Width"].Value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
-                        oc.Height = Convert.ToInt32(node.Attributes["Height"].Value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
-                        oc.MarginTop = Convert.ToInt32(node.Attributes["MarginTop"].Value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
-                        if (node.Attributes["Italic"] != null)
-                            oc.Italic = Convert.ToBoolean(node.Attributes["Italic"].Value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
-                        if (node.Attributes["ExpandCount"] != null)
-                            oc.ExpandCount = Convert.ToInt32(node.Attributes["ExpandCount"].Value, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
-                        foreach (XmlNode pointNode in node.SelectNodes("Point"))
-                        {
-                            var op = new NOcrPoint(DecodePoint(pointNode.Attributes["Start"].Value), DecodePoint(pointNode.Attributes["End"].Value));
-                            XmlAttribute a = pointNode.Attributes["On"];
-                            if (a != null && Convert.ToBoolean(a.Value))
-                                oc.LinesForeground.Add(op);
-                            else
-                                oc.LinesBackground.Add(op);
-                        }
-                        nocrChars.Add(oc);
-                    }
-                }
-                catch (Exception exception)
-                {
-                    MessageBox.Show(exception.Message);
-                }
-            }
-            return nocrChars;
-        }
-
         public static List<NOcrChar> LoadNOcrForTesseract(string xmlRessourceName)
         {
             var nocrChars = new List<NOcrChar>();
@@ -5683,7 +5644,7 @@ namespace Nikse.SubtitleEdit.Forms
             string fileName = GetNOcrLanguageFileName();
             if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(fileName))
             {
-                LoadNOcr(fileName);
+                _nOcrDb = new NOcrDb(fileName);
             }
         }