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Re:Show HN: RapidFuzz – A fast string matching library for P... by germanjoey on Monday March 30, 2020 @07:19AM (#22727019)
I am very interested in a version that allow you to pass in a custom substitution cost! It has a great use for OCR applications!
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Re:Show HN: RapidFuzz – A fast string matching library for P... by maxbachmann on Monday March 30, 2020 @10:51AM (#22728455)
Well then I will add it :)
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Re:Show HN: RapidFuzz – A fast string matching library for P... by maxbachmann on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:00AM (#22736207)
`rapidfuzz.levenshtein.weighted_distance` does now support the three parameters `insert_cost`, `delete_cost` and `replace_cost`.
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Re:Show HN: RapidFuzz – A fast string matching library for P... by edraferi on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:02AM (#22727295)
Yeah that would be pretty cool. I’d be interested to use that to implement phonetic distance scoring.
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