Telugu Transcription & Document Annotation Expert

Obsidian; Oslo; Hybrid; NOK 420,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Obsidian is seeking detail-oriented Telugu annotators to build training data for document AI. You will identify page regions, bound them, and transcribe all Telugu text with high fidelity.

You will work with diverse published Telugu documents, multi-column layouts, handwriting, and diagrams, performing precise transcription and metadata capture, with peer review by a Telugu expert.

Candidates should be native Telugu speakers and demonstrate exactness and consistency across hundreds of pages.

Qualifications

• You are a native Telugu speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics and 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.

Responsibilities

• Source documents: find a publicly accessible Telugu PDF in an assigned document type, containing at least one multimodal element (images, tables, diagrams, or handwriting), and record where you obtained it.
• 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 Telugu 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 Telugu expert, and experienced annotators take on that review.

Skills

Telugu language

Attention to detail

Systematic approach

Job description

Obsidian is seeking detail-oriented Telugu annotators to build training data for document AI. You will identify page regions, bound them, and transcribe all Telugu text with high fidelity.

You will work with diverse published Telugu documents, multi-column layouts, handwriting, and diagrams, performing precise transcription and metadata capture, with peer review by a Telugu expert.

Candidates should be native Telugu speakers and demonstrate exactness and consistency across hundreds of pages.