Document Annotation Specialist (Northern Europe)
About this role
• 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 Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, or Swedish. • 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.