Fuzzy Search
Fuzzy Search (Approximate Search)
Fuzzy search is available when you want to search for words that do not exactly match the search term. Fess supports fuzzy search based on Levenshtein distance.
Usage
Add “~” after the search term to which you want to apply fuzzy search.
For example, to perform a fuzzy search for the word “Fess”, enter the following in the search form to search for documents containing words similar to “Fess” (such as “Fes”):
Fess~