Jellyfish is a python library for doing approximate and phonetic
matching of strings.
String comparison:
Levenshtein Distance
Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
Jaro Distance
Jaro-Winkler Distance
Match Rating Approach Comparison
Hamming Distance
Phonetic encoding:
American Soundex
Metaphone
NYSIIS (New York State Identification and Intelligence System)
Match Rating Codex