PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts - Odiya

3 weeks, 2 days ago
Contract
Mid Level
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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Construction & Engineering
11-50
Founded 2020

Description

  • Review assigned PDF pages for Odiya language, legibility, meaningful content, and absence of personal information.
  • Identify, bound, classify, and order every meaningful page region, including headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, diagrams, captions, formulas, questions, and answer fields.
  • Link regions to their associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers.
  • Transcribe all visible text faithfully in Odiya script, including handwritten content, and flag illegible regions.
  • Record page metadata such as language, document type, source, dimensions, and indicators for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
  • Review colleagues’ annotations and transcriptions end to end as a second Odiya-language expert.
  • Flag unsuitable pages before beginning detailed annotation work.

Requirements

  • Native fluency in Odiya (Oriya), including full command of its script, orthography, diacritics, and conjunct forms.
  • Experience with document-based work such as annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
  • Strong character-level accuracy and attention to detail, including correct diacritics and script forms.
  • Ability to apply a document taxonomy consistently across large volumes of pages.
  • Comfort working with unfamiliar layouts, including multi-column newspapers, examination papers, tables, diagrams, and handwritten forms.
  • Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual dataset evaluation preferred.
  • Experience with transcription, localization, MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing preferred.
  • Knowledge of Odiya typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, digitization, Unicode normalization, or Odiya input methods preferred.
  • Compensation: $12.68 per hour.

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