- Review and annotate document images to accurately identify text, paragraphs, tables, and other document elements.
- Correct Optical Character Recognition (OCR) errors, including spelling mistakes, missing characters, formatting inconsistencies, and transcription inaccuracies.
- Create, review, and adjust bounding boxes to precisely capture text blocks, paragraphs, tables, and other document regions.
- Transcribe text exactly as it appears in source documents, preserving original characters, symbols, punctuation, diacritics, and formatting.
- Review and annotate tables, mathematical expressions, and LaTeX equations while maintaining structural and textual accuracy.
- Apply Markdown formatting consistently to represent document structures, including headings, lists, tables, and other elements.
- Process multilingual documents while preserving language-specific characters, writing systems, and special symbols.
- Follow project guidelines and annotation standards to ensure consistent, accurate, and reliable outputs.
- Identify discrepancies in annotated data and make corrections in accordance with established instructions.
- Maintain high levels of transcription accuracy and data quality while meeting project deadlines.
- Review complex document layouts and technical content to ensure the integrity of digitized information.
- Collaborate with project stakeholders and follow quality requirements throughout the document annotation process.
- Native or near-native proficiency in Afrikaans, Amharic, Kinyarwanda, Malagasy, Swahili, Xhosa, or Zulu.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to identify minor errors in text, formatting, and document layouts.
- Demonstrated ability to transcribe text accurately and reproduce exact characters, punctuation, symbols, tables, and mathematical expressions.
- Familiarity with OCR text correction, document annotation, bounding box adjustment, or related data quality tasks.
- Understanding of Markdown formatting and structured document representation.
- Ability to review multilingual text while preserving special characters, diacritics, and language-specific writing conventions.
- Strong reading comprehension and the ability to follow detailed instructions and annotation guidelines.
- Ability to work independently, maintain consistent quality, and meet project deadlines.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly when identifying discrepancies in document data.
- Ability to work with complex document layouts, scanned images, tables, mathematical notation, and technical content.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous experience in data annotation, OCR correction, document digitization, transcription, or data quality review.
- Familiarity with scanned documents, complex layouts, tables, mathematical notation, and LaTeX equations.
- Experience working with multiple languages, multilingual documents, or non-Latin scripts.
- Experience following structured quality assurance procedures and annotation guidelines.
- Ability to maintain high accuracy and consistency when processing large volumes of document data.