An in-between option that is relatively simple and a rather fast (though not as fast as the automata) optimization to levenstein distance and based on Tries is:

An in-between option that is relatively simple and a rather fast (though not as fast as the automata) optimization to levenstein distance and based on Tries is: http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=114 http://stevehanov.ca/blog/?id=114.