Simple Email Name Parser
Analyzes the email address and attempts to extract a person's name.
[email protected] => [john, doe]
The service attempts to detect several kinds of syntax, such as:
Names are not formatted to correct case, they are left the way they appeared in the input.
Input
A syntactically valid email address.
An invalid input exception is thrown if the address does not look like an email address.
An invalid input exception is thrown if the address does not look like an email address.
See context
Output
Possible values:
The email address belongs to a department, such as [email protected].
It is a technical email address for the domain, such as [email protected].
The email address contains a person's initials such as [email protected].
Note that this answer is a guess, the 2 letters could also have another meaning such as a short given name or surname, or something completely different.
The email address contains a person's name such as [email protected].
There is no name in the address, for example [email protected]
The address may be personal or non-personal, can't say (as in UNKNOWN) but it is clear that no name can be found in it.
The email address could not be classified and hence the service failed to extract a name.
This is only filled if resultType is PERSON_NAME or INITIALS.
0-n ways of extracting a person's name.
The first entry (if any) is the best, they are ordered by likeliness in descending order.
0-n ways of extracting a person's name.
The first entry (if any) is the best, they are ordered by likeliness in descending order.