Malayalam PDF Annotation & Transcription Specialist

OpenTrain AI; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Part time

Job summary

OpenTrain AI is seeking a Malayalam PDF Annotation and Transcription Expert for a fully remote, hourly‑paid freelance contract.

The role is listed as part‑time contractor work at $12.68 per hour and is open to contributors in India, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Malta.

Qualifications

• Native fluency in Malayalam with full command of script, diacritics, and conjunct forms.
• Experience in document annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Character-level precision is required; even a single diacritic error is a defect.
• Ability to apply a consistent taxonomy across hundreds of pages.
• Comfort working with multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs that contain multimodal elements such as images, tables, diagrams, or handwriting.
• Identify and bound every meaningful page region, including titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, captions, formulas, questions, and answer fields.
• Assign each region a component type and reading-order index.
• Link each region to its parent component, such as connecting a caption to the figure or table it describes.
• Transcribe all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script, including handwritten content.
• Flag regions that are illegible.
• Record language, document type, source, and page dimensions.
• Mark page-level flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague’s completed work for end-to-end accuracy.

Skills

Malayalam fluency

Attention to detail

Job description

OpenTrain AI is seeking a Malayalam PDF Annotation and Transcription Expert for a fully remote, hourly‑paid freelance contract.

The role is listed as part‑time contractor work at $12.68 per hour and is open to contributors in India, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Malta.