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Example: Fuzzy String Matcher and Near-Duplicate Finder

Match strings against a candidate list or group near-duplicates with Levenshtein, Jaro-Winkler, Dice or token-set similarity and a score threshold. Pure compute, no network, no AI.

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Fuzzy String Matcher and Near-Duplicate Finder
Fuzzy String Matcher and Near-Duplicate Finderfirebrick_zamia/fuzzy-string-matcher
Kind
Index
Query
Input
+8 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Mode:match
Queries:Acme Corporation Ltd+3
Candidates:ACME Corp. Ltd.+4
Algorithm:token_set
Minimum score:0.6
Matches per query:2
Ignore case:true
Strip accents:true
Ignore punctuation:true
Collapse whitespace:true

Output fields

Kind
Index
Query
Input
Matched
Best match
Score
Cluster
Is canonical
Canonical
Similarity
Error

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