The Franc Natural Language Detection library inside a single executable with no dependencies.

Download the pre-built binary for your Operating System from the Release page.

franc-bin [options] <string>

where <string> is the text to recognize

Options:

• -h, --help output usage information
• -v, --version output Franc-Cli version number
• -m, --min-length <number> minimum length to accept
• -o, --only <string> allow specific languages
• -i, --ignore <string> disallow specific languages
• -a, --all display all guesses with probability score

Usage examples

output language

$ franc "Alle menslike wesens word vry"
# afr

output language from stdin (expects utf8)

$ echo "এটি একটি ভাষা একক IBM স্ক্রিপ্ট" | franc
# ben

ignore certain languages

$ franc --ignore por,glg "O Brasil caiu 26 posições"
# src

Support 187 languages. See Franc supported languages for more info.

Franc can support more than 380 languages, but this packaged version stops at 187

Requirements:

• NodeJS (16.0 or newer)
• NPM

Yes, it is a Javascript project, but thanks to PKG, by Vercel can be packed into a real executable.

Generate the binaries

Download all the dependencies

# pull the dependencies
npm ci

Now generate the binaries for MacOS, Windows and Linux in the ./dist folder

# Build the executables
npm run production

Contributions are welcomed, just make a pull request.

This project is licensed under the MIT license.