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PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts - Malayalam

1 month ago

India

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Mid Level

Data Annotator

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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Description

Review assigned PDF pages for Malayalam content, legibility, meaningful content, and absence of personal details.
Identify, bound, classify, and sequence every meaningful page region, including text, tables, figures, diagrams, formulas, and form fields.
Record parent-child relationships between regions and their associated figures or tables.
Transcribe all visible text exactly in Malayalam script, including handwritten content, and flag illegible regions.
Capture metadata such as language, document type, source, page dimensions, tables, formulas, and handwriting.
Review other annotators’ work end to end as a second Malayalam-language expert.
Flag unsuitable pages before beginning detailed annotation.

Requirements

Native-level Malayalam fluency with full command of Malayalam script, diacritics, conjunct forms, and orthography.
Ability to perform all annotation and transcription work in Malayalam script rather than transliteration.
Experience with document annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
Strong character-level accuracy and attention to diacritics.
Ability to apply a document taxonomy consistently across large volumes of pages.
Comfort working with multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms, and other unfamiliar layouts.
Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation preferred.
Experience with MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing preferred.
Knowledge of Malayalam typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, digitization, Unicode normalization, or input methods preferred.

Benefits

Compensation of $12.68 per hour

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