# annotate automatically same token occurs in the text

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**Created:** [January 24, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/annotate-automatically-same-token-occurs-in-the-text/6269 "2023-01-24T07:26:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2023, 1:42pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/annotate-automatically-same-token-occurs-in-the-text/6269/2 "2023-01-24T13:42:26Z")

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Hi @Bharath,  
thank you for your question 🙂  
If you know the words that you want to annotate beforehand, you could use a [pattern file](https://prodi.gy/docs/text-classification#patterns) and the `--patterns` flag in your [ner.manual command](https://prodi.gy/docs/recipes#ner-manual).

If you don't know these words beforehand, you could write a custom recipe to add your annotated spans to the Matcher while annotating. In order to achieve this, you need to add an `update()` function to your recipe. For that, you might want to checkout the following two posts by Ines:

- [NER Training for Corporate Names - #16 by ines](https://support.prodi.gy/t/ner-training-for-corporate-names/1353/16)
- [Prodigy Custom Model; Model in the Loop (matcher) - #2 by ines](https://support.prodi.gy/t/prodigy-custom-model-model-in-the-loop-matcher/4534/2)

In both update-functions, spans are added to the `PatternMatcher` during the annotation process.  
I hope that this helps you with your problem. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

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