Algorithms to recognize misspelled names in texts

Question

I need to develop an application that will index several texts and I need to search for people’s names inside these texts. The problem is that, while a person’s correct name is “Gregory Jackson Junior”, inside the text, the name might me written as:
- Greg Jackson Jr
- Gegory Jackson Jr
- Gregory Jackson
- Gregory J. Junior
I plan to index the texts on a nightly bases and build a database index to speed up the search. I would like recommendation for good books and/or good articles on the subject.
Thanks

Answer 1

Check these related questions.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/246961/algorithm-to-find-similar-text

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/338661/how-to-search-for-a-persons-name-in-a-text-heuristic

Answer 2

Your question is incorrectly phrased. The examples do not indicate misspelling but change in the form of writing a full name.

And,

• would your search expect to match on words like son with reference to the example?
• would it expect to match bob when looking for a name called Robert?
  • Are you looking for things like this and this?

Ok, reading your comment suggests you do not want to venture into that.