Explore the new Apache Commons Text component in this 45-minute Linux Foundation talk. Delve into the history, current layout, and unique features of Commons Text, including string building, formatting, templating, and tokenizing. Learn about advanced text processing capabilities such as longest common subsequence, normalization, edit distances, and text diff algorithms. Discover other similarity scores, upcoming features, release dates, and word utilities. Gain insights into potential applications and ways to participate in the Apache Commons project. Perfect for Java developers interested in enhancing their text processing capabilities and contributing to open-source software.