diff --git a/app/__init__.py b/app/__init__.py
index 208da59..982fb0b 100644
--- a/app/__init__.py
+++ b/app/__init__.py
@@ -1,13 +1,3 @@
 import os
-
-# override polyglot path
-import polyglot
-from appdirs import user_data_dir
-
-polyglot.polyglot_path = os.path.join(
-    user_data_dir(appname="LibreTranslate", appauthor="uav4geo"), "polyglot_data"
-)
-
-
 from .main import main
 from .manage import manage
diff --git a/app/detect.py b/app/detect.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b43087
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/detect.py
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Originally adapted from https://github.com/aboSamoor/polyglot/blob/master/polyglot/base.py
+
+import pycld2 as cld2
+
+class UnknownLanguage(Exception):
+  pass
+
+class Language(object):
+  def __init__(self, choice):
+    name, code, confidence, bytesize = choice
+    self.code = code
+    self.name = name
+    self.confidence = float(confidence)
+    self.read_bytes = int(bytesize)
+
+  def __str__(self):
+    return ("name: {:<12}code: {:<9}confidence: {:>5.1f} "
+            "read bytes:{:>6}".format(self.name, self.code,
+                                    self.confidence, self.read_bytes))
+
+  @staticmethod
+  def from_code(code):
+    return Language(("", code, 100, 0))
+
+
+class Detector(object):
+  """ Detect the language used in a snippet of text."""
+
+  def __init__(self, text, quiet=False):
+    """ Detector of the language used in `text`.
+    Args:
+      text (string): unicode string.
+    """
+    self.__text = text
+    self.reliable = True
+    """False if the detector used Best Effort strategy in detection."""
+    self.quiet = quiet
+    """If true, exceptions will be silenced."""
+    self.detect(text)
+
+  @staticmethod
+  def supported_languages():
+    """Returns a list of the languages that can be detected by pycld2."""
+    return [name.capitalize() for name,code in cld2.LANGUAGES if not name.startswith("X_")]
+
+  def detect(self, text):
+    """Decide which language is used to write the text.
+    The method tries first to detect the language with high reliability. If
+    that is not possible, the method switches to best effort strategy.
+    Args:
+      text (string): A snippet of text, the longer it is the more reliable we
+                     can detect the language used to write the text.
+    """
+    reliable, index, top_3_choices = cld2.detect(text, bestEffort=False)
+
+    if not reliable:
+      self.reliable = False
+      reliable, index, top_3_choices = cld2.detect(text, bestEffort=True)
+      
+      if not self.quiet:
+        if not reliable:
+          raise UnknownLanguage("Try passing a longer snippet of text")
+
+    self.languages = [Language(x) for x in top_3_choices]
+    self.language = self.languages[0]
+    return self.language
+
+  def __str__(self):
+    text = "Prediction is reliable: {}\n".format(self.reliable)
+    text += u"\n".join(["Language {}: {}".format(i+1, str(l))
+                        for i,l in enumerate(self.languages)])
+    return text
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/language.py b/app/language.py
index 2e358c2..05696b6 100644
--- a/app/language.py
+++ b/app/language.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import string
 
 from argostranslate import translate
-from polyglot.detect.base import Detector, UnknownLanguage
+from app.detect import Detector, UnknownLanguage
 
 __languages = None
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 39a300f..062976f 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,10 +5,8 @@ flask-swagger-ui==4.11.1
 Flask-Limiter==2.6.3
 waitress==2.1.2
 expiringdict==1.2.2
-pyicu>=2.8
-pycld2==0.41
+LTpycld2==0.42
 morfessor==2.0.6
-polyglot==16.7.4
 appdirs==1.4.4
 APScheduler==3.9.1
 translatehtml==1.5.2