LanguageDet

C++ implementation of the Java language-detection library，and provides Python interface makes it easier to use in Python and is the fastest detection library.

It analyzes UTF8-encoded text and returns the most likely human language of the contents.

It uses the same language profiles as the original library, which are based on 1-3 character N-grams. These profiles cover 55 different languages, for details, please check the Java language - detection library (https://github.com/shuyo/language-detection).

Prerequisites

On Unix (Linux, OS X)

• Install CMake
• A compiler with C++11 support
• CMake >= 3.4 or Pip 10+
• Ninja or Pip 10+

On Windows

• Visual Studio 2015 or newer (required for all Python versions, see notes below)
• CMake >= 3.8 (3.8 was the first version to support VS 2015) or Pip 10+

python install

1. Installation method one

   • git clone https://github.com/hezhaozhao-git/language-det.git
   • cd language-det
   • python setup.py install

2. Installation method tow

   • pip install git+https://github.com/hezhaozhao-git/language-det.git

use in your python code

from language_det import LanguageDet
ld = LanguageDet()
ld.language_det("nice to meet you")  # "EN"

About to do

• My project and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39142778/python-how-to-determine-the-language these language detect packages compare the test performance

reference

• pybind11
• langdetectpp