Malayalam PDF Annotator and Transcriptionist

Role Overview

Help build high-quality training data for document AI by creating detailed structural maps and exact Malayalam transcriptions from real, publicly available PDF pages. This work focuses on challenging materials such as handwriting, dense multi-column layouts, tables, diagrams, and mixed-script pages from sources including newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets.

All annotation and transcription work is completed in Malayalam by human experts.

Key Responsibilities

• Find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs in assigned document types that include at least one image, table, diagram, or handwritten element, 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 and link regions to their associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers.
• Transcribe text exactly as shown in Malayalam script, including handwritten content, and flag illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata, including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and indicators for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague''s work end to end when assigned as an experienced annotator.

Qualifications

• Native Malayalam fluency with full command of Malayalam script, orthography, diacritics, and conjunct forms.
• Experience in document 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 document taxonomy across many pages.
• Comfort working with unfamiliar layouts, including multi-column newspapers, examination papers, and handwritten forms.

Preferred Experience

• Regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation.
• MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Malayalam document production, typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization.
• Unicode normalization, Malayalam input methods, and numeral and character-form accuracy.

What Success Looks Like

• Every meaningful page region is captured, accurately bounded, and correctly typed.
• Reading order matches how the document is read, including multi-column layouts.
• Transcriptions match the source character for character in Malayalam script, not transliteration.
• Work passes second-expert review on the first submission.
• Selected documents add meaningful layout variety to the dataset.

Work Terms

• Remote, hourly engagement.
• Quality and accuracy are the primary measures, with handling time also tracked.

Compensation

• $12.68 per hour.