Top "Fuzzy-comparison" questions

Fuzzy comparison is the colloquial name for Approximate String matching, the technique of finding strings that match a pattern approximately (rather than exactly).

How do I determine whether a number is within a percentage of another number

I'm writing iPhone code that fuzzily recognizes whether a swiped line is straight-ish. I get the bearing of the two …

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elasticsearch fuzzy matching max_expansions & min_similarity

I'm using fuzzy matching in my project mainly to find misspellings and different spellings of the same names. I need …

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How to calculate matching score between two string in java?

I want classify two strings as similar or not similar. For example s1 = "Token is invalid. DeviceId = deviceId: "345" " s2 = "Token …

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Comparing (similar) images with Python/PIL

I'm trying to calculate the similarity (read: Levenshtein distance) of two images, using Python 2.6 and PIL. I plan to us …

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Pandas fuzzy merge/match name column, with duplicates

I have two dataframes currently, one for donors and one for fundraisers. I'm trying to find if any fundraisers also …

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