Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: nearust
Version: 0.3.0
Summary: Fast detection of similar strings
Author: Matthew Cowley
Author-email: Yuta Nagano <yutanagano51@proton.me>
Maintainer-email: Yuta Nagano <yutanagano51@proton.me>
Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/yutanagano/nearust
Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/yutanagano/nearust
Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/yutanagano/nearust/issues
Keywords: edit-distance,levenshtein-distance,string-matching,string-search,string-similarity
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS
Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Requires-Python: >=3.10
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE.txt
Dynamic: license-file

# nearust

`nearust` is a tool for fast detection of nearest neighbour strings that fall within a threshold edit distance.
It is a fast, multi-threaded, CPU-based implementation of Chotisorayuth and Mayer's [symdel algorithm](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09010v1).
