Identify Language Of Any Text with PolyGlot

Because of the globally distributed workforce of my clientelle, i often find myself going through email chains which look greek to me, though, i do have the option of going to any of the language tool and doing a translation, but for this to be achieved, i need to first identify atleast the source language. With PolyGlot you can easily get rid of this problem.

Polyglot 3000 is an automatic language identifier that quickly recognizes the language of any text, phrase or even single words.

Key Features of PolyGlot

1.) Support more than 400 Languages. You might be interested in going the entire list of all supported languages.

2.) PolyGlot offers a multilingual interface with support for English, German, French, Spanish and others.

3.) PolyGlot also offers Unicode Text support.

4.) Quick and correct language identification.

Follow the steps outlined below to start identifying languages with PolyGlot.

1.) Download and install Polyglot 3000. Click the link to download Polyglot 3000.

Image: Using Polyglot for identifying Dutch language.

2.) Launch Polyglot. Enter the text in text area provided and press the button “Recognize Language” or press F9.

3.) The results are shown below the text area.

Image: Identifying Chinese with Polyglot

I tried the tool for identifying languages like Dutch, Chineese (Simplified), Croatian and English. While the tool worked wonderful with Dutch and Chineese and English, it didn’t work so well for Croatian.

What are the other language identification and translation tools that you use on a regular basis?

Also Read: [How-To] Add Language Translation feature to your Website or Blog

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