The Customer Data Parser (CDP) processes unstructured name and address lines to output a series of structured name and address components (such as first name, last name, house number, city, etc.) according to country-specific rules and tables.
The CDP enables you to perform these functions:
- Identifies words and phrases in free-form text by their values or masks.
- Produces standardized output in useful formats.
- Identifies elements of data from the input data file.
- Uses country-specific tables to verify and identify data according to each country’s postal rules and idioms.
- Allows users to customize name and address identification for specific business requirements.
- Defines word and phrase patterns (tokens) for a given country.
- Uses City Directory files to define state/province/county names, city names, and postal codes for a given country.
- Corrects misspellings.
- Enables recoding of words or phrases using external tables.
See Customer Data Parser Process for an overview of the CDP process.