Aibu to be fucked off about this?

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Ok so I've just started freelancing via a website. It's basically an online market place. People post their tasks/jobs, you bid for it. Simple.
Someone posted a task, can't be too specific but it's basically an edit. Spell check, perhaps add an extra page of content.
I've received these copies to edit and I'll have to fully rewrite them as they're no longer current or accurate, some sentences make no sense whatsoever and to top it all off it's literally impossible to edit it as it's a photograph/screen shot of said piece of work.
So I've quoted based on what is essentially a totally different job, which will require around 2-3hrs of my time as opposed to 30 minutes maximum. But as it's via this website I can't change how much I've quoted him or ask for more as he's accepted the quote and if I cancel the job this impacts my rating so will hinder my ability to get work.
Aibu to be so fucked off?

I'd reply letting him know that for the price stated and without an editable copy, all you can do is write up a list of edits for him to do and write up the extra page's content.

You can use one note to turn it into editable text. But it's very shit if you can't negotiate when you're he job changes.

If this has cropped up as an issue on only the 6th job for this website, are you sure it is as fantastic a website as you say? If there truly is no way to resolve this without you getting negative feedback and the knock on that will have, then that is a major flaw with a website that is designed to negotiate between buyer and seller of services. There would be absolutely nothing stopping me falsely advertising my jobs constantly to get a lot of work done for cheap.

How does he not have an editable copy? It sounds a little fishy.

But back to your choices, if he CAN send you an editable document (and you'll have to refuse if he can't, since you are unable to actually EDIT the thing (which is what you quoted for)) I would just do it, chalk it up to experience and do what others have suggested re your hourly rate.

I know this doesn't help with your main problem but it should greatly reduce the time taken, depending on how long the document is. (A page might be quicker just to retype - a couple of pages it is definitely the way to go)
You can OCR a photo of typed text - convert the image into text.
Lots of free software around for downloading -some are better than others and some work better on different fonts.

I have Supergeek free document OCR - I found it after trying a few to be the best for things written in Comic Sans (we had lost the soft copies of some things written in that font) but the last couple of things (not Comic Sans) it hasn't done a good job on.

Also often printer/scanner software often comes with some OCR software - also I've never tried this but Google Keep will also OCR images . Check out CNET downloads for free OCR software.
They all also depend on how technical the language used is to how accurate it is.

Copy and paste the text into a Word or similar doc and do a spell check which should pick up most of the errors...if you find a frequently used word has repeatedly been converted badly stop spell checking and do a find and replace for the 'wrong' word for the right one -eg search for 't1me' and replace with 'time' kind of thing -especially useful for technical words. Then you need to carefully proof read it...
You can also get free software to convert jpegs to pdfs - so you can edit the pdf -but as a word doc will be more flexible.

Hi op, I'm freelance and sourcing some of my work through similar platforms. Sadly some clients using them to do big and quite complicated jobs for minimum payment as they know the consequences for you to abandon the job at this stage.
First rule is to never accept the job before actually see the file/files you suppose to be working on just to make sure you are able to edit it and are confident in subject.
Most of the platform have good support system so you can complain about it and to avoid situations like that in he future. For know if I were you, and if you don't want to affect your rating on this platform, I would just do the job for a sake of future projects and treat this as a lesson for future to be more careful. You can try to resolve this with the client but I recon his excuse will be that you shouldn't accept the job if you can't do it.

I'd be so tempted to print his page out, cut and paste it correctly, insert hand written pieces then just photograph and return it in the same way.
Unfortunately you need to keep your account decent so you can't 😏