Address (DE)

Purpose

Use the address detector (region de) for German street addresses.

This detector uses dictionary-backed matching with German city and street name databases. Currently in beta with limited coverage.

Detector Name

address

Region: de

Usage

from fastpii import FastPII, DEFAULT_PRIORITY
from fastpii.countries.de import GermanPack

engine = FastPII(priority=DEFAULT_PRIORITY)
engine.register(GermanPack())

result = engine.detect("Berlin Strasse 5, 10115 Berlin")

Limitations

• German address detection is in beta with limited coverage
• Street database contains 144 entries (all ASCII-transliterated, no umlauts)
• City database contains 63 entries
• Detection confidence may be lower than CZ detectors
• Future releases will expand street and city coverage