Yeah, I wrote some python once to give me voice control over a plex server. Distance algorithms did okay I had a lot better results out of fuzzy wuzzy though
Kind of a dicey prospect with risk when you’re doing duplication though.
Then you run into problems with things like Harry Potter and the philosopher’s Stone versus Harry Potter and the sorcerer’s Stone. Depending on how badly your database is degenerated you can even end up with words out of order and all kinds of crazy crap. If the database is truly large just truing the database up can be unreasonably time-consuming.
I was pretty amazed at all the different versions of string search and comparison algorithms.