Korean PDF Annotator and Transcriptionist

Role Overview

Help create high-quality training data that improves document AI for Korean scripts and complex real-world layouts. You will turn publicly available Korean PDF pages into detailed structural maps and precise Korean-language transcriptions, covering challenging content such as handwriting, multi-column pages, tables, diagrams, and mixed-script documents.

Key Responsibilities

• Find publicly accessible Korean PDFs within assigned document types that include at least one image, table, diagram, or handwritten element, and document 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 indexes and connect related regions to their parent figure or table.
• Transcribe text exactly as shown in Korean, including Hangul, hanja, and handwritten content, and flag illegible regions.
• Record page metadata, including language, document type, source, dimensions, and the presence of tables, formulas, or handwriting.
• Review colleagues'' work end to end when assigned as an experienced annotator.

Qualifications

• Native Korean fluency and full command of Hangul are required. All annotation and transcription work is completed in Korean.
• Ability to work accurately with hanja in older or formal Korean documents.
• Experience in bilingual transcription, translation, editorial work, or AI training data, preferably including review experience.
• Exceptional character-level accuracy, including correct Hangul jamo.
• A systematic approach to applying a consistent taxonomy across many pages.
• Comfort working with unfamiliar layouts, including multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms.

Preferred Experience

• Annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for AI training datasets.
• MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Korean-language documents.
• Unicode normalization, Korean input methods, Hangul jamo composition, and hanja handling.

Work Terms

• Remote, hourly role.
• Work involves real published Korean materials, including newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets.
• Quality is the primary measure of performance, with handling time also tracked.

Compensation

• $33.58 per hour.

What Success Looks Like

• Every meaningful page region is accurately captured, bounded, and typed.
• Reading order matches the way the page is read, including across columns.
• Transcriptions match the source character for character in Hangul, without romanization.
• Work passes second-expert review on the first submission.
• Selected documents add meaningful layout diversity to the dataset.