Malayalam Document Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr in Bombay, भारत

About the job

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Position: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Malayalam

Type: Contract

Compensation: $13/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents: find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and record their sources.
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page and assign component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships: link each region to its parent component through an identifier.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script , flagging illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: document language, type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: experienced annotators review tasks end to end.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy.
• Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Preferred

• Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization, such as MTPE, subtitling, or OCR correction.
• Document production experience: typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading.
• Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization , input methods, numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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