PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Bengali | $12.68/hr Remote
Overview
Remote contributors in India, the US, Canada, and Western Europe are wanted for a Bengali document annotation and transcription project. The task is to take real public PDFs and produce a complete structural map of each page, then transcribe every text region character-for-character in Bengali script. The data deliberately includes the layouts parsing models choke on: handwriting, dense columns, tables, and mixed-script pages from newspapers, exams, and everyday documents. Everything is manual, and every task gets rechecked by a second Bengali expert.
What You'll Do7
- 1Locate a publicly accessible Bengali PDF that fits a given document type and contains at least one image, table, diagram, or handwritten element, and record its source.
- 2Mark every meaningful region on the page, such as title, headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, captions, formulas, question fields, and answer fields, and classify each one.
- 3Assign each region a reading-order index that shows how a real person reads the page.
- 4Link each region to its parent figure or table using a component identifier.
- 5Transcribe every text region exactly as it appears, including handwriting, and flag any area where the source is simply unreadable.
- 6Add page metadata for language, document type, source URL, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
- 7Review another contributor's completed tasks end to end; experienced annotators take on review duties.
Requirements6
- 1Native-level fluency in Bengali, including reading and writing Bengali script with all diacritics and conjuncts.
- 2Demonstrated experience with document-based work: annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
- 3Character-level accuracy; a missing diacritic is a defect, so the work demands careful attention to detail.
- 4Ability to apply a fixed taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages instead of improvising.
- 5Comfort with unusual layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam sheets, handwritten forms.
- 6Familiarity with Unicode normalization, Bengali input methods, or OCR correction (nice to have).
Who Should Apply
The right fit is a native Bengali speaker with a background in document annotation, transcription, proofreading, or language QA, and a habit of following an annotation taxonomy exactly. If you're not comfortable with handwritten text, old newsprint, or complex tables, or if you'd rather paraphrase than transcribe letter-for-letter, this role will frustrate you. Rejection most often happens when applicants show no proof of working with Bengali script, or when they treat the source loosely, for example by transliterating into Latin script. It also happens when people miss legibility flags and then guess at unreadable content.
Salary Insight
The listed rate is $12.68/hr for this remote contract work. Because this is an hourly engagement with no benefits, confirm the expected weekly hours and whether the rate also covers training time and review tasks. Given the location pool includes the US and Canada, this rate sits on the lower end, so it makes sense to check volume before applying.
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Application Tip
Submit a sample transcription of a messy Bengali PDF, ideally a newspaper page with columns or a handwritten form, and list the document tools you use for viewing and marking regions. Mention any past annotation, proofreading, or localization work in terms of page counts or projects, and state that you can handle Unicode-based Bengali input.
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