Fuzzy Matching Python Packages

fuzzysearch

Find parts of long text or data, allowing for some changes/typos.

splink

Fast, accurate and scalable probabilistic data linkage with support for multiple SQL backends

symspellpy

Python port of SymSpell: 1 million times faster spelling correction & fuzzy search through Symmetric Delete spelling correction algorithm

abydos

Abydos NLP/IR library for Python

matchms

Python library for processing (tandem) mass spectrometry data and for computing spectral similarities.

spaczz

Fuzzy matching and more functionality for spaCy.

fuzzymatcher

Record linking package that fuzzy matches two Python pandas dataframes using sqlite3 fts4

csvmatch

🔎 Finds fuzzy matches between CSV files

prefixtrie

This is a high-performance implementation of a Prefix Trie to perform efficient fuzzy string matches.

analiticcl

an approximate string matching or fuzzy-matching system for spelling correction, normalisation or post-OCR correction (mirror of https://codeberg.org/proycon/analiticcl)

goldenmatch

🟡 Golden Suite — polyglot data-quality + entity-resolution toolkit. GoldenCheck profiles → GoldenFlow standardizes → GoldenMatch dedupes → GoldenPipe orchestrates. Zero-config defaults, 97% F1, MCP server per package + one master, multi-arch container images, drop-in Airflow DAGs.

zingg

Scalable identity resolution, entity resolution, data mastering and deduplication using ML

floof

Fuzzymatching made easy

fuzzyname

A simple Python class for easier name matching (especially in academia).

batch-jaro-winkler

Fast batch jaro winkler distance implementation in C99 with Ruby, OCaml and Python bindings.

hmni

📛 Fuzzy Name Matching with Machine Learning

rosette-api

Babel Street Analytics Client Library for Python

pyjedai

An open-source library that leverages Python’s data science ecosystem to build powerful end-to-end Entity Resolution workflows.

infermap

Inference-driven schema mapping engine for Python and TypeScript. 7 built-in scorers, domain dictionaries (healthcare/finance/ecommerce), confidence calibration, cross-language accuracy benchmark (F1 0.84), and full Python↔TypeScript parity.

deduplipy

Python package for deduplication/entity resolution using active learning

arabnamer

Offline Arabic name transliteration & fuzzy similarity. No LLM, no API calls, names never leave your infrastructure. Ships a 38 MB pruned XGBoost model + 22K EN↔AR dictionary. 98.4 lenient accuracy on MENA benchmark. Built for KYC, compliance, entity resolution, Arabic NLP preprocessing.

spec2vec

Word2Vec based similarity measure of mass spectrometry data.

bharataddress

Deterministic, offline parser for messy Indian addresses. 26,711 pincodes embedded with OSM centroids, DIGIPIN encode/decode, phonetic alias matching (Gurgaon/Gurugram, Bengaluru/Bangalore), zero required dependencies. Optional opt-in Nominatim geocoding.

iamsystem

A python implementation of IAMsystem algorithm