Fuzzy Search

Subjective content searching (as compared to word searching of objective data). Fuzzy Searching lets the user find documents where word matching does not have to be exact, even if the words searched are misspelled due to optical character recognition (OCR) errors.

Fuzzy searches return results even if the text to be searched is slightly misspelled. Fuzzy searches are helpful in returning a result even if the original text has been corrupted thorough an optical character recognition (OCR) error, which common in scanned documents.

A search that returns words with spelling that is similar to that of the search term.

Search which will find matching terms when terms are misspelled (or fuzzy). Fuzzy search technology is similar to stemming technology, with the exception that fuzzy search corrects the misspellings at the users end and stemming searches for other versions of the same core word within the index.

A search that will find matches even when words are only partially spelled or misspelled.