@microsoft/recognizers-text-number

What is @microsoft/recognizers-text-number?

@microsoft/recognizers-text-number is a part of the Microsoft Recognizers Text suite, which provides robust text recognition capabilities. This specific package focuses on recognizing and parsing numbers, ordinal numbers, percentages, and more from text in multiple languages.

What are @microsoft/recognizers-text-number's main functionalities?

Number Recognition

This feature allows you to recognize and extract numbers from a given text. In the example, it identifies 'two' and 'three' as numbers.

const { recognizeNumber } = require('@microsoft/recognizers-text-number');
const input = 'I have two apples and three oranges.';
const results = recognizeNumber(input, 'en-us');
console.log(results);

Ordinal Number Recognition

This feature helps in recognizing ordinal numbers from text. In the example, it identifies 'first' as an ordinal number.

const { recognizeOrdinal } = require('@microsoft/recognizers-text-number');
const input = 'This is the first time I am using this package.';
const results = recognizeOrdinal(input, 'en-us');
console.log(results);

Percentage Recognition

This feature allows you to recognize and extract percentage values from text. In the example, it identifies '20%' as a percentage.

const { recognizePercentage } = require('@microsoft/recognizers-text-number');
const input = 'The discount is 20% on all items.';
const results = recognizePercentage(input, 'en-us');
console.log(results);

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README

Microsoft.Recognizers.Text for JavaScript

This module (recognizers-text-number) is a sub-module of recognizers-text-suite.

Please check the main README for more details.