Detect the language of text.
- franc supports more languages(†) than any other library, or Google;
- franc is easily forked to support 300+ languages;
- franc is just as fast as the competition.
† - If humans write in the language, on the web, and the language has more than one million speakers, franc detects it.
npm:
$ npm install francComponent:
$ component install wooorm/francBower:
$ bower install francvar franc = require('franc');
franc('Alle menslike wesens word vry'); // "afr"
franc('এটি একটি ভাষা একক IBM স্ক্রিপ্ট'); // "ben"
franc('Alle mennesker er født frie og'); // "nno"
franc(''); // "und"
franc.all('O Brasil caiu 26 posições em');
/*
* [
* [ 'por', 5507 ],
* [ 'glg', 6270 ],
* [ 'src', 6292 ],
* [ 'lav', 6391 ],
* [ 'cat', 6432 ],
* [ 'spa', 6481 ],
* [ 'bos', 6509 ],
* [ 'tpi', 6526 ],
* [ 'hrv', 6532 ],
* [ 'snn', 6556 ],
* [ 'bam', 6693 ],
* [ 'sco', 6695 ],
* ...
* ]
*/
franc.all(''); // [ [ 'und', 1 ] ]Note!: franc returns the
"und"language code for an undetermined language. This happens when the input value is too short to give a significant answer.
franc supports 168 languages. For a complete list, check out Supported-Languages.md.
On a MacBook Air, it runs 169 paragraphs 2 times per second (total: 338 op/s).
benchmarks * 169 paragraphs in different languages
2 op/s » franc -- this module
2 op/s » guesslanguage
2 op/s » languagedetect
2 op/s » vac
(I’ll work on a better benchmark soon)
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