Chinese Content Needed – Family Recipe Collection (Digitizing Handwritten Notes)

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Budget / Salary$250–750
TypeFreelance project
LocationRemote
Posted49 minutes ago
I'm helping a family organize their recipe collection. My grandmother left behind decades of handwritten recipe notes — some in notebooks, some on loose paper, a few typed but with handwritten corrections. They're all in Chinese, and I need them digitized into a clean, editable Word document.
If the $20 bid fee is a problem, you can apply using the PDF/docs attached to this project.
This isn't a creative writing job. It's about accuracy and completeness. I need every ingredient, every measurement, every handwritten note captured correctly. Stains, torn edges, and fading ink don't matter — just the text.

Some recipes use local terms and measurements that might not be standard Mandarin. That's fine — I need them transcribed exactly as written, with a note if something is unusual.

What's in the Recipe Notes
Here's the kind of thing you'll be working with:

Ingredients — some measured, some "a handful" or "a bowl"

Instructions — handwritten steps, sometimes with corrections or arrows

Notes in margins — "Mom used more ginger" or "Double for holidays"

Titles and dates — when the recipe was written or last used

Occasional stains — soy sauce, oil, tea (ignore these)

Mixed dialects — a few notes have Cantonese or regional expressions

Requirements
Native Chinese speaker (Simplified or Traditional, but tell me which you prefer)

Able to read handwritten Chinese (some may be cursive)

Attention to detail — nothing missed

Comfortable with Word (basic formatting)

Able to mark handwritten notes clearly in brackets
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