PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Malayalam

• Open and check a task: pages are provided, so you do not source documents yourself. We find the PDFs and upload them for you. Before annotating, confirm the page is in Malayalam, is legible, has real content, and shows no personal details
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page - document title, section heading, paragraph, list, table, figure, diagram, caption, formula, question, answer field - and assign each a component type and a reading-order index
• Record relationships: link each region to the figure or table it belongs to through a parent component identifier
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script, including handwritten content, flagging any region where the source is not legible
• Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas and handwriting
• Review a colleague's work: every task is reviewed end to end by a second Malayalam expert, and experienced annotators take on that review

• Native fluency in Malayalam, including full command of Malayalam script and orthography, is required for this position.
• All annotation and transcription work is performed in Malayalam.
• You are a native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics and its conjunct forms
• You have worked with documents: annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review
• You are exact: character-level accuracy matters more here than speed, and a single wrong diacritic is a defect
• You are systematic: you apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages rather than improvising per document
• You are comfortable with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms

• Regional-language AI data: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for training datasets
• Transcription and localization: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction or post-editing
• Document production: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Malayalam-language material
• Script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Malayalam input methods, numeral-form and character-form accuracy

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