Odia PDF Annotator and Transcriptionist

Role Overview

Help create human-authored training data that improves document AI for Odia script. You will turn publicly available Odia PDF pages into detailed structural maps and exact Odia-script transcriptions, focusing on challenging real-world materials such as handwriting, tables, diagrams, dense multi-column layouts, and mixed-script pages.

Documents may include newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets. All annotation and transcription work is performed in Odia.

Key Responsibilities

• Find publicly accessible Odia PDFs in assigned document types that include at least one image, table, diagram, or handwritten element, and record the source.
• Identify, bound, classify, and sequence every meaningful page region, including titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, diagrams, captions, formulas, questions, and answer fields.
• Link regions to their associated figures or tables through parent component identifiers.
• Transcribe text exactly as shown in Odia 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-level fluency in Odia, also known as Oriya, with full command of Odia script, orthography, diacritics, and conjunct forms.
• Experience with document annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Strong character-level accuracy, including careful handling of diacritics.
• A systematic approach to applying a taxonomy consistently across many pages.
• Comfort working with unfamiliar layouts, including multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms.

Preferred Experience

• Regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for training datasets.
• MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Odia-language materials.
• Unicode normalization, Odia input methods, and numeral or character-form accuracy.

Success in This Role

• Capture, accurately bound, and correctly classify every meaningful page region.
• Represent the actual reading order, including across columns.
• Produce character-for-character Odia-script transcriptions rather than transliterations.
• Submit work that passes second-expert review on the first review cycle.
• Contribute documents with varied layouts rather than repeated templates.

Work Terms

• Remote, hourly independent-contractor engagement.
• Open only to contributors based in India, the United States, Canada, or Western Europe.
• Accuracy is the primary quality measure, with handling time also tracked.

Compensation

• 12.68 per hour.

Eligibility

• Native fluency in Odia and the ability to perform all annotation and transcription tasks in Odia are required.