Claude
From $17/monthBilled yearly; $20 monthly; free plan available
- Strength：Reads long PDFs and images and sorts the fields into the columns you give it.
- Trade-off：The free plan has usage limits; large batches need a paid plan.
Job guide
Data entry & document conversion
What buyers wantBuyers have scans, PDFs, recordings or forms and want them turned into editable, searchable Word, Excel and database records.
Four numbersLast 7 days · updated hourly · last update 10-03 21:04 (Beijing time)
- Job posts, last 7 days
- 292posts
- Overseas 292 · China 0
- Median budget
- $750
- USD fixed-price · 48 posts, last 4 weeks
- Median bids
- 17bids
- Per post · 293 posts with bid counts
- How much AI can do
- AI does most, a person checks
- First take, rechecked Oct 15
Where AI fits: Reading text, pulling out fields and transcribing audio is fast and cheap with AI. Checking every number, name and format line by line is what buyers pay for.
Market
Market for this job
5 sub-categories combined; a post that fits several counts once
Trend
Job posts per week (weeks start Monday, Beijing time), both markets
| Week | Total | Overseas | China | Days with data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| week of 2026-09-21 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| week of 2026-09-28 | 282 | 282 | 0 | 6 |
- This week so far
- 282posts · 6 days with data
- Week over week
- —after one full week of data
Job posts per week, Monday to Sunday (Beijing time), both markets. Lighter bars are partial weeks (this week so far, or weeks with days missing). Hover a bar for the split by market.
Sub-categories
By job posts in the last 7 days. Category pages are in Chinese for now.
Budgets
median $750
- Hourly (USD)
- $25/hourmedian · 53 posts
- Other currencies (not converted)
- 196 postsINR 179 · GBP 5 · AUD 5 · EUR 4
- Listing prices (Etsy / eBay services)
- $25median · 17 listings, last 30 days
Budgets are what the posts state: USD uses the upper end of fixed-price budgets (Freelancer uses brackets, so percentiles often land on $30, $250 or $750); CNY uses the stated budget. Neither is the final deal price. Last 4 weeks of posts; fewer than 3 posts means no percentiles; other currencies are counted, not converted.
China vs overseas
| Metric | Overseas100% of last 7 days | China0% of last 7 days |
|---|---|---|
| Job posts, last 7 days | 292 posts | 0 posts |
| Job posts, since 09-27 | 292 posts | 0 posts |
| Median budget | $750USD · 48 posts | n/afewer than 3 posts with a budget in 4 weeks |
| Median bids per post | 17293 posts with bid counts | n/aonly Freelancer shows bid counts |
| New listings, last 7 days | 1 postsSince 09-27: 1 | 0 postsSince 09-27: 0 |
| Median listing price | $2517 Etsy / eBay service listings | n/anone in 30 days |
| Posts that mention AI | positive 1% · negative 0%307 posts, last 4 weeks | —0 posts in 4 weeks; we need 10 for a share |
Positive = the buyer wants AI output, names an AI tool or accepts AI; negative = says no AI (posts that say both count as negative). Job posts only. Listings = service listings first seen that day (Etsy / eBay service listings only); freelancers who sell privately don't show up here.
Tools
Tools you need
Three levels: get the essentials first, add the next level as work grows, use the optional ones when a client asks
Essentials
Enough to start taking work
ChatGPT
From $8/monthFree plan available; Plus $20/month, Pro from $100/month
- Strength：Reads text from images and turns it into tables; fine for everyday small jobs.
- Trade-off：The free plan has usage limits and slows down at busy times.
Airtable
From $20/monthTeam, billed yearly; $24 monthly; free plan available
- Strength：Entered data becomes a spreadsheet-style database you can filter and de-duplicate, and clients understand it.
- Trade-off：Collaboration needs the Team plan: $20/month billed yearly, $24 monthly.
Level up
Add when you have more work
Jotform
From $34/monthBronze, billed yearly; $39 monthly; free plan available
- Strength：Build online forms and surveys and keep the responses in one place.
- Trade-off：The free plan takes only 100 submissions a month and shows Jotform branding.
Make
From $9/monthyearly price; monthly not verified; free plan 1,000 credits a month
- Strength：Moves incoming files and form responses into your sheet automatically, so you copy less by hand.
- Trade-off：The free plan allows 2 active scenarios, running at most every 15 minutes.
Otter
From $8.33/monthBilled yearly; $16.99 monthly; free plan has 300 minutes a month
- Strength：Transcribes English recordings automatically; the free plan covers 300 minutes a month.
- Trade-off：$8.33/month only when billed yearly; $16.99 monthly.
Optional
Use when a client asks
Fireflies
From $10/monthBilled yearly; $18 monthly; free plan available
- Strength：Joins online meetings on its own and sends notes afterwards.
- Trade-off：$10/month billed yearly, $18 monthly.
DeepL
FreeWeb version: 50,000 characters a month; Individual €7.49/month billed yearly
- Strength：Machine-translate foreign-language documents first, then tidy them up.
- Trade-off：The free web version is limited to 50,000 characters a month.
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Where to find work
Where to find this work
Posts for this job we collected in the last 28 days: Freelancer 293, Himalayas 9, 电鸭社区 2, X 1, Jobicy 1, Hacker News 1. We only count platforms we collect from; a missing platform doesn't mean there is no demand there.
| Name | What it is | Fees | Best for | Go |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Freelancer | Bid on projects with public budget ranges; many of the job posts we track come from here.; 293 of these posts here in the last 28 days | 10% or $5, whichever is higherhourly projects 10% per payment | Good for first jobs | Go → |
| Upwork | One of the largest general freelance marketplaces — send proposals for fixed-price or hourly work. | 0%–15%varies by contract, shown when you send a proposal | Good English · longer projects | Go → |
| Fiverr | Package your service as fixed-price gigs; buyers order directly. | 20%sellers keep 80%; withdraw 14 days after completion | Can package a service | Go → |
| PeoplePerHour | A UK-born freelance marketplace where you win projects by sending proposals. | 20% / 7.5% / 3.5%Tiered by how much you've billed the same client | Good English · proposals | Go → |
Platform fees, payouts and getting your first order: see 接单平台 (中文)
Get started
Get started
Four general steps: pick tools → make samples → list a service or bid → let AI draft, check by hand
Pick your tools
One AI model that reads images and long PDFs, plus a spreadsheet database. Add a transcription tool if you take audio jobs.
Make a side-by-side sample
Take a public scan or your own handwritten page and make a sample with the original next to your delivered file, marking what you checked.
List a service or bid
Price by page or by row, and state the format (Word, Excel, CSV), how you check accuracy and the turnaround.
Let AI draft, check by hand
AI does the first pass and pulls out fields; you check every number, name and format line by line. Handle files with personal data only as the client allows, and delete them after delivery as agreed.
Updated 2026-10-03 21:04 (Beijing time) · data up to 20:49 · demand numbers aggregate public job posts, not completed deals; tool prices and partner terms follow the official pages.