3. Merging Exported Text

Download Notepad++ and go to S:\Digitization Team\n-Gram\ and copy the combine.dll file into the Notepad++ plugin folder. Other software can be used to do the merging, but make note of the encoding (UTF-8) and the filename scheme (Watson record number).

1. Create a new folder within the folder where the exported text reside.
2. Open Notepad++ and drag and drop all the text files for one publication.
   • Multi-volumes should be treated as one publication so include all volumes.
3. Click on Plugin, select Combine and then Start
4. Uncheck all options and click OK.This will merge all open files.
5. Save the file as the record number [b12345678.txt] in the newly created folder.
   • Make sure it is in UTF-8 encoding. If it is not, click on Encoding and select Convert to UTF-8
6. Close all the files by going to File and selecting Close All
7. Repeat the process with next publication
8. Once the current set of publication have all been merged, move the files to its respective folder in "S:\...\ContentDM Export\merged text\”

Here’s how to merge the text w/o Notepad++:

http://www.wikihow.com/Merge-Text-(.Txt)-Files-in-Command-Prompt

And to copy the prompt from the above [copy: for %f in (*.txt) do type "%f" >> output.txt] into Command Prompt, you can copy as usual (command+c) and paste into Command Prompt with the following “alt+space+e+p”