Gujarati Document Annotation & Transcription Specialist

The role focuses on creating high-quality training data for document understanding models, particularly for languages like Gujarati, which are less commonly processed by current parsing and vision-language models.

The project involves annotating real, publicly available PDF pages to produce a complete structural map of each page, paired with a faithful transcription of every text region in the original Gujarati script. The dataset is deliberately concentrated on challenging materials such as handwriting, dense multi-column layouts, tables, diagrams, and mixed-script pages. Documents include newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets to reflect real-world diversity.

Delivered work is entirely human-authored, ensuring component identification, 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. We find the PDFs and upload them for you. Before annotating, confirm the page is in Gujarati, is legible, has real content, and shows no personal details.
• 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 Gujarati 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 Gujarati expert, and experienced annotators take on that review.

Who You Are

• You are a native Gujarati speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics, and its conjunct forms.
• You have worked with documents in areas such as 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.

Nice-to-Have Specialties

• Regional-language AI data: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for training datasets.
• Transcription and localization: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Document production: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Gujarati-language material.
• Script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Gujarati 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 Gujarati 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.