thefuzz

Fuzzy String Matching in Python (by seatgeek)

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  • File Path Issue
    1 project | /r/learnpython | 17 Jun 2023
    probbaly can use https://github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz
  • [Flask] Best / Modern approaches for fuzzy name searching?
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 11 Jan 2023
    Check out https://github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz. It basically provides different methods that take two strings and return a score between 0 and 100 indicating how similar they are. For instance,
  • How to identify duplicate crawl data?
    1 project | /r/webscraping | 21 Nov 2022
    Consider something like Levenshtein distance and one of it's implementations like thefuzz.
  • Find best match between a reference string and a list of strings
    1 project | /r/pythontips | 13 Nov 2022
  • NLP: How to rebuild a name from letters
    1 project | /r/computerscience | 12 Oct 2022
    The problem you are solving is most commonly called “fuzzy string matching”. There are a bunch of algorithms for it (some of which are described in this thread) depending on your specific requirements. I’d start with an existing fuzzy string matching library (e.g. thefuzz, for python) and calculate matches between your input letter cases and your list of names. This sounds pretty reasonable to do fast since fuzzy string matching is commonly used in text editors to make it easier to find files. If you start with a fuzzy string matching library, I wouldn’t worry about asymptomatic complexity until you actually see a performance problem.
  • Is there a Python library that lets me search through a list like searching with a search engine?
    1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 31 Aug 2022
    You probably want a package that can do fuzzy matching. The first search result for me turned up this: https://github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz
  • How good is my summary?
    2 projects | /r/LanguageTechnology | 13 May 2022
    Having said that, you can use the Levenshtein distance to compute how many "edits" (substitutions, deletions, insertions) the generated summary is away from the original abstract. The package TheFuzz implements this concept in Python. For example fuzz.ratio(text1, text2) will give you a similarity score.
  • import fuzzywuzzy
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 22 Feb 2022
    fuzzywuzzy is actually just called the thefuzz now.
  • Bad word filter?
    1 project | /r/learnpython | 20 Dec 2021
    It sounds like what you're looking for is "fuzzy string matching," which is not just checking if a string matches another exactly, but defining a way to measure "how close" a string is to another. Luckily, it looks like there's a good Python library for that already: https://github.com/seatgeek/thefuzz
  • Extracting information from scanned PDF docs, is it possible?
    2 projects | /r/learnpython | 6 Oct 2021
    Finally, even though Tesseract's output is usually very nice, it can sometime make a mistake. Again, this is case-specific, and if you're extracting for example numbers, it will be very hard to check for errors, but since I'm extracting names, I'm capable of fuzzy comparing the names detected by Slavic NER to a database of names that I have. I do this fuzzy matching with thefuzz library, and in cases I find a very high match with one of the names in my database, I simply fix the error by taking the name from there.
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seatgeek/thefuzz is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of thefuzz is Python.


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