Detect-File-Encoding-And-Language

Functionality

Determine the encoding and language of text files!

Detects 40 languages as well as the appropriate encoding
Available as CLI, in Node.js and in the browser
Supports .txt, .srt, .sub, .html, .csv, .tsv
Works best with large inputs
Completely free, no API key required

For reliable encoding and language detection, use files containing at least 500 words of coherent text. Smaller inputs can work as well but the results might be less accurate and in some cases incorrect.

Live Demo

Feel free to test the functionality of this NPM package here. Upload your own files and see if the encoding and language are detected correctly!

Installation

npm install detect-file-encoding-and-language

Usage

Via CDN

// index.html
<body>
  <input type="file" id="my-input-field" />
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/detect-file-encoding-and-language/umd/language-encoding.min.js"></script>
  <script src="app.js"></script>
</body>

// app.js
document.getElementById("my-input-field").addEventListener("change", (e) => {
  const file = e.target.files[0];
  languageEncoding(file).then((fileInfo) => console.log(fileInfo));
  // Possible result: { language: english, encoding: UTF-8, confidence: { encoding: 1, language: 1 } }


If you don't want to use a CDN feel free to [download the source code](https://github.com/gignupg/Detect-File-Encoding-and-Language/wiki/Downloading-the-Source-Code)!

### In React

// App.js import languageEncoding from "detect-file-encoding-and-language"; export default function App() { function inputHandler(e) { const file = e.target.files[0]; languageEncoding(file).then((fileInfo) = console.log(fileInfo)); // Possible result: { language: english, encoding: UTF-8, confidence: { encoding: 1, language: 1 } } } return <input type="file" onChange={inputHandler} /; }


### In Node
#### File

// server.js const languageEncoding = require("detect-file-encoding-and-language"); const pathToFile = "/home/username/documents/my-text-file.txt"; languageEncoding(pathToFile).then((fileInfo) = console.log(fileInfo)); // Possible result: { language: japanese, encoding: Shift-JIS, confidence: { encoding: 0.94, language: 0.94 } }


#### Buffer

// server.js const languageEncoding = require("detect-file-encoding-and-language"); const content = Buffer.from("file content"); languageEncoding(content).then((fileInfo) = console.log(fileInfo)); // Possible result: { language: japanese, encoding: Shift-JIS, confidence: { encoding: 0.94, language: 0.94 } }

detect-file-encoding-and-language

安装

README.md