spacy_ner.py

import spacy #Using Spacy version 2.2.3
nlp = spacy.load("en_core_web_lg")

inp_text = "My name is John Wick, I live in California"
doc = nlp(inp_text)

for ent in doc.ents:
    print(ent.text, ent.start_char, ent.end_char, ent.label_)
new_tokens = []
for token in doc:
    print("Text: "+ token.text + " Entity: "+ token.ent_type_ + token.ent_iob_)
    if not token.ent_type_:
        new_tokens.append(token.text)
    else:
        new_tokens.append('xxxx')
new_text = ' '.join(new_tokens)
print("new Text->", new_text) # My name is xxxx xxxx , I live in xxxx