Ah, I will consider this as a drop in replacement on EasyALPR. I use fuzzy text searching to compare LPR license plates with those on lists for parking enforce

Ah, I will consider this as a drop in replacement on EasyALPR. I use fuzzy text searching to compare LPR license plates with those on lists for parking enforcement. I wrote a blog entry about Vladimir Losifovich Levenshtein and practical description of string comparison here: https://blog.easyalpr.com/2019/09/16/calculating-license-plate-similarity-using-levenshtein-distance/ https://blog.easyalpr.com/2019/09/16/calculating-license-pla... Also, here's a UI on top of fuzzy string matching if you just want to play with levenshtein distance for a few minutes: https://easyalpr.com/tools/string-compare/ https://easyalpr.com/tools/string-compare/