# Does elasticsearch-6.8.4 support language detection?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-6-8-4-support-language-detection/212271>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 18, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-6-8-4-support-language-detection/212271 "2019-12-18T07:31:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Pratik\_Hulji](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pratik_hulji/32/59612_2.png) [@Pratik\_Hulji](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pratik_Hulji)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 7:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-6-8-4-support-language-detection/212271/1 "2019-12-18T07:31:57Z")

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If Yes please help me

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 8:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-6-8-4-support-language-detection/212271/2 "2019-12-18T08:04:28Z")

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It might help if you provide more details around what behaviour you are looking for. I can not think of anything out of the box at the moment but there may be workarounds depending on the requirements.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-6-8-4-support-language-detection/212271/3 "2019-12-18T08:46:59Z")

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Have a look at this plugin made with love by @spinscale:

> **[spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-langdetect](https://github.com/spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-langdetect)**
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> Ingest processor doing language detection for fields - spinscale/elasticsearch-ingest-langdetect

Also FSCrawler adds support for it when parsing binary/text files: [https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/admin/fs/local-fs.html#language-detection](https://fscrawler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/admin/fs/local-fs.html#language-detection)

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**Author:** ![Pratik\_Hulji](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/pratik_hulji/32/59612_2.png) [@Pratik\_Hulji](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pratik_Hulji)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2019, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-6-8-4-support-language-detection/212271/4 "2019-12-23T07:43:51Z")

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Thank you sir

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2020, 7:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-elasticsearch-6-8-4-support-language-detection/212271/5 "2020-01-20T07:43:52Z")

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