Franc as Binary

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

Getting Started

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

Supported languages

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

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

Compile from source

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

Contribution

Contributions are welcomed, just make a pull request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.