Bengali Document Annotation and Transcription Specialist

Why This Role Exists

Document understanding breaks down fastest in the languages that parsing and vision-language models rarely see. This project builds training data for languages like Bengali, alongside four other Indic scripts, Japanese, and Korean. Each task involves taking a real, publicly available PDF page and producing a complete structural map of that page, paired with a faithful transcription of every text region in the original script.

The dataset focuses on the types of documents models handle worst: handwriting, dense multi-column layouts, tables, diagrams, and mixed-script pages. Documents are sourced from newspapers, textbooks, examinations, and everyday formats such as flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets to reflect the real diversity of Bengali documents.

Delivered work is entirely human-authored, ensuring component identification, component typing, reading order, and transcription are performed by people, not generated by parsing models.

Requirements

What You'll Do

• Open and check a task: pages are provided, so you do not source documents yourself. Confirm the page is in Bengali, legible, contains real content, and shows no personal details.
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page—such as document title, section heading, paragraph, list, table, figure, diagram, caption, formula, question, or 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 Bengali script, including handwritten content, and flag 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 Bengali expert, and experienced annotators take on this review.

Who You Are

• You are a native Bengali speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics, and its conjunct forms.
• You have experience working with documents, including annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• You prioritize exactness: character-level accuracy matters more than speed, and a single wrong diacritic is considered 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, such as multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Nice-to-Have Specialties

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

What Success Looks Like

• Every meaningful region on the page is captured, correctly bounded, and correctly typed.
• Reading order reflects how the page is actually read, including across columns.
• Transcriptions match the source character for character, in Bengali script rather than transliteration.
• Your tasks pass second-expert review the first time.
• Unsuitable pages are flagged up front rather than after thirty minutes of work.