Are there any open source/commercial libraries out there that can detect mailing addresses in text, just like how Apple's Mail app underlines addresses on the Mac/iPhone.<p>I've been doing a little online research and the ideas seem to be either to use Regex or a full on NLP package such as Stanford's NLP, which usually are pretty massive. I doubt iPhone has a 500MB NLP package in there, which makes me to believe there should be an easier way. Too bad UIDataDetectors is not open source.<p>Thanks,<p>Drew
Are you only trying to detect US addresses, or anywhere in the world?<p>For US addresses, a quick check for known zip codes or state names/abbreviations might be a good place to start if you're looking to roll your own.