PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert – Japanese
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Job Description
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert creating training data for Mercor’s document AI projects. Structuring pages and transcribing Japanese text for frontier AI models.
Responsibilities:
- Open and check provided PDF annotation tasks
- Confirm pages are Japanese, legible, contain real content, and have no personal details
- Identify and bound every meaningful page region
- Assign component types and reading-order indexes
- Link regions to related figures or tables using parent component identifiers
- Transcribe all text faithfully, including Japanese scripts and handwritten content
- Flag illegible source regions
- Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting metadata
- Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced Japanese expert
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
- Ability to apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages
- Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
- Fluent Japanese language skills required
- Must be able to work as an independent contractor
- H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Opportunity to work on projects training and enhancing AI systems
- Collaborate with leading researchers
- Referral payments of up to $140 per successful referral



