PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and transcribing Japanese text. Creating human-authored training data for Mercor’s AI lab and enterprise partners.
Responsibilities:
- Open and check assigned PDF pages for Japanese language, legibility, real content, and absence of personal details
- Identify and bound every meaningful page region, including titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, diagrams, captions, formulas, questions, and answer fields
- Assign component types and reading-order indexes
- Link regions to associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
- Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwriting
- Flag illegible source regions
- Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table/formula/handwriting metadata
- Review colleagues' annotation work end to end as an experienced annotator
- Produce human-authored training data for document AI systems
Requirements:
- Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and variant character forms
- Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, editorial work, or comparable document-intensive work
- Character-level accuracy and attention to detail
- Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages
- Comfortable with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
- Japanese language skills required; all work is performed in Japanese
- Independent contractor status
- Must not require H-1B or STEM OPT sponsorship/support
- Nice-to-have: annotation, labeling, grading, bilingual evaluation, MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, post-editing, typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, digitization, Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width/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
- Competitive pay
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral opportunity: earn up to $140 for each successful referral
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