Bengali PDF Annotator and Transcriptionist

Role Overview

Help create high-quality training data for document AI by mapping and transcribing real Bengali PDF pages. You will work with publicly available materials, including newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets, with an emphasis on difficult layouts such as handwriting, tables, diagrams, dense multi-column pages, and mixed-script content. All annotation and transcription work is completed in Bengali by human experts.

Key Responsibilities

• Find publicly accessible Bengali PDFs in assigned document categories that include at least one multimodal element, such as an image, table, diagram, or handwriting, and record the source.
• Identify, bound, and classify every meaningful page region, including titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, diagrams, captions, formulas, questions, and answer fields.
• Assign reading-order indices that reflect how each page is actually read, including across multiple columns.
• Link related regions to their associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers.
• Transcribe all text exactly as shown in Bengali script, including handwritten text, and flag content that cannot be read clearly.
• Capture page metadata, including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and indicators for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague''s completed work end to end when assigned as an experienced annotator.

Qualifications

• Native Bengali fluency, with full command of Bengali script, orthography, diacritics, and conjunct forms.
• Experience with document-focused work such as annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Exceptional character-level accuracy, including careful handling of diacritics.
• A consistent, systematic approach to applying a classification taxonomy across many pages.
• Comfort working with unfamiliar layouts, including multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms.

Preferred Experience

• Regional-language AI data work, including annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for training datasets.
• Transcription or localization work such as MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Bengali document production, including typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization.
• Knowledge of Unicode normalization, Bengali input methods, and accurate numeral and character forms.

Quality Expectations

• Capture, correctly bound, and correctly classify every meaningful region on each page.
• Produce Bengali-script transcriptions that match the source character for character, without transliteration.
• Complete work that passes second-expert review on the first submission.
• Contribute documents with varied layouts rather than repeatedly using the same templates.
• Prioritize accuracy, while handling time is also tracked.

Work Terms

• Remote, hourly engagement.
• Open only to contributors located in India, the United States, Canada, or Western Europe.

Compensation

• 12.68 per hour.

Eligibility

• Applicants must be able to perform all annotation and transcription tasks fluently in Bengali.