PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert – Bengali

Contract · Remote · India

Hourly Rate: $12.68/hour

Fluent Language Required: Bengali

About the Role

This contract role is for native Bengali speakers with full command of Bengali script, orthography, diacritics, and conjunct forms. You’ll create high-quality document annotation and transcription data from publicly available PDF pages to support the development of document understanding and vision-language AI systems.

The work focuses on challenging Bengali documents and layouts, including handwriting, dense multi-column pages, tables, diagrams, examinations, newspapers, textbooks, forms, flyers, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets.

All annotation and transcription is completed manually by human experts. Documents are provided to you, so you will not need to source them yourself.

What You’ll Do

- Review assigned PDF pages to confirm they are in Bengali, contain legible content, have meaningful content, and do not include personal details.

- Identify and accurately bound every meaningful region of each page, including titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, diagrams, captions, formulas, questions, and answer fields.

- Assign the appropriate component type and reading-order index to each region.

- Record relationships between regions and their associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers.

- Transcribe all visible text exactly as it appears in the original Bengali script, including handwritten content.

- Flag regions where the source text cannot be read reliably rather than making assumptions.

- Capture page metadata such as language, document type, source, page dimensions, and indicators for tables, formulas, and handwriting.





- Review completed work from other Bengali annotators for structural, transcription, and overall quality.

Requirements

- Native-level Bengali fluency.

- Full command of Bengali script, including orthography, diacritics, and conjunct forms.

- Professional experience working with documents through annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, digitization, or regional-language data review.

- Exceptional attention to detail and character-level transcription accuracy.

- Ability to consistently apply an established annotation taxonomy across large volumes of documents.

- Comfortable working with unfamiliar layouts, including multi-column newspapers, examination papers, handwritten forms, tables, and diagrams.

- Ability to accurately reproduce Bengali text without relying on transliteration.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation.

- Experience with transcription, localization, machine translation post-editing, subtitling, bilingual quality assurance, OCR correction, or post-editing.

- Experience with Bengali-language typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or document digitization.

- Familiarity with Unicode normalization, Bengali input methods, and accurate handling of character and numeral forms.





- Previous experience reviewing annotation work or performing quality assurance on language datasets.

Who Should Apply

This role is suited to Bengali language professionals who are highly precise, systematic, and comfortable working with diverse document formats.

You should be able to recognize subtle character and diacritic differences, accurately determine reading order across complex layouts, apply annotation categories consistently, and identify illegible or unsuitable pages before significant work is performed.

Quality Expectations

Successful work should meet the following standards:

- Every meaningful page region is identified, correctly bounded, and correctly classified.

- Reading order reflects how the page is actually read, including across multiple columns.

- Transcriptions match the source character for character in Bengali script rather than transliteration.

- Completed tasks pass second-expert review with minimal corrections.

- Unsuitable pages are identified and flagged before substantial annotation work begins.

- Accuracy takes priority over speed, with handling time tracked alongside quality.

Compensation & Engagement

- Hourly rate: $12.68/hour.

- Independent contractor engagement.

- Fully remote.

- Work can be completed on your own schedule.

- Actual earnings depend on hours worked and project availability.

- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on project requirements and performance.

Payment Terms

- Weekly payments through Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.

- Work will not require access to confidential or proprietary information belonging to an employer, client, or institution.

- H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported for this opportunity.

📌 PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert – Bengali (India)
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