mbanon/fastspell
Targetted language identifier, based on FastText and Hunspell.
This tool helps you accurately determine the language of a text, especially when languages are very similar (like Spanish and Galician). You provide a piece of text, and it tells you which language it is. It's designed for anyone working with multilingual text who needs precise language identification, beyond what basic tools offer.
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Use this if you need to precisely identify the language of short text snippets, particularly when distinguishing between closely related languages is crucial for your work.
Not ideal if you primarily work with texts in widely divergent languages, as its main benefit is for fine-grained distinction between similar languages.
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Sep 04, 2025
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