Tool description

The Script Detector is a powerful tool that automatically identifies and analyzes the writing systems (scripts) used in any text. This comprehensive character set identifier can detect over 25 different writing systems including Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), Devanagari, Greek, Thai, Georgian, Armenian, and many more. Whether you need a Cyrillic detector or want to identify character sets from any language, the tool provides detailed statistics about the distribution of characters across different scripts, making it invaluable for linguistic analysis, content moderation, and text processing.

Features

  • Multi-Script Detection: Identifies 25+ writing systems including Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, CJK, and various Indic scripts
  • Mixed-Script Alert: Automatically detects when text contains multiple writing systems
  • Detailed Statistics: Shows character count and percentage distribution for each detected script
  • Character Examples: Displays sample characters from each detected writing system
  • Real-time Analysis: Instant detection as you type or paste text
  • Unicode Range Support: Covers comprehensive Unicode ranges for accurate detection
  • Percentage Breakdown: Visual percentage representation of script distribution

Use Cases

  • Content Moderation: Identify potentially suspicious mixed-script content (e.g., homograph attacks)
  • Cyrillic Detection: Use the Cyrillic detector to identify Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and other Cyrillic-based text
  • Character Set Identification: Quickly identify character sets in unknown or mixed-language documents
  • Linguistic Analysis: Analyze multilingual documents and their composition
  • Data Quality: Verify that text content matches expected writing systems and character sets
  • Text Processing: Pre-process text based on detected scripts before translation or analysis
  • Security Analysis: Detect spoofing attempts using visually similar characters from different scripts
  • Language Detection: Preliminary script detection before full language identification
  • Academic Research: Study script usage patterns in multilingual corpora
  • Internationalization Testing: Verify that applications handle various writing systems correctly

Supported Scripts

The tool can identify character sets and detect the following writing systems:

  • Latin (including extended variants)
  • Cyrillic (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, etc.) - Full Cyrillic detector support
  • Arabic (including Arabic supplements and extensions)
  • Hebrew
  • Greek (including extended Greek)
  • CJK Unified Ideographs (Chinese, Japanese Kanji)
  • Hangul (Korean)
  • Hiragana (Japanese)
  • Katakana (Japanese)
  • Devanagari (Hindi, Sanskrit, Marathi, Nepali)
  • Bengali
  • Tamil
  • Telugu
  • Gujarati
  • Kannada
  • Malayalam
  • Sinhala
  • Thai
  • Lao
  • Myanmar (Burmese)
  • Khmer (Cambodian)
  • Tibetan
  • Georgian
  • Armenian
  • Ethiopic (Amharic, Tigrinya)

What is a Writing System?

A writing system (or script) is a set of symbols used to represent text in a particular language or group of languages. Different cultures and linguistic communities have developed unique writing systems over millennia. Some languages use the same script (e.g., many European languages use Latin), while others have their own distinctive scripts (e.g., Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic).

Understanding the script composition of text and being able to identify character sets is crucial for:

  • Proper rendering and display
  • Text processing and normalization
  • Language identification using script and character set detection
  • Security analysis (detecting homograph attacks with Cyrillic or other script detectors)
  • Internationalization and localization