PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping complex document layouts and transcribing text exactly. Creating human-authored training data for Mercor's frontier AI projects.
Responsibilities:
- Open and check provided PDF-page tasks
- Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content and show no personal details
- Identify and bound every meaningful page region
- Assign component types and reading-order indexes
- Link regions to their parent figures or tables
- Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including Japanese scripts, furigana and handwritten content
- Flag illegible source regions
- Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula and handwriting flags
- Review colleagues' work end to end as a second Japanese expert when experienced
- Produce human-authored training data for document AI and frontier AI systems
Requirements:
- Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana and katakana, including furigana and variant character forms
- Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, editorial work, or comparable document-intensive work
- Character-level accuracy and strong attention to detail
- Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages
- Comfortable with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers and handwritten forms
- Fluent Japanese language skills required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
- Independent contractor status
- Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time
- Nice-to-have: annotation, labeling, grading or bilingual evaluation for AI training datasets
- Nice-to-have: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction or post-editing
- Nice-to-have: Japanese typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading or digitization
- Nice-to-have: Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible schedule; work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Work on real published Japanese documents rather than synthetic or templated pages
- Quality-focused project with accuracy as the first measure
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral opportunity offering up to $140 per successful referral
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