PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription for Mercor’s AI training data projects. Mapping document structure and reproducing Japanese text with character-level accuracy.
Responsibilities:
- Open and check provided PDF tasks
- Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content, and show no 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 indices
- Link regions to related figures or tables using parent component identifiers
- Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content
- Flag illegible source regions
- Capture page metadata, including language, document type, source, dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags
- Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced Japanese expert
- Ensure regions are correctly captured, bounded, typed, and ordered
- Ensure transcriptions match the source character for character and pass second-expert review
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 attention to detail
- Ability to apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages
- Comfortable working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
- Fluent Japanese language skills required
- Ability to perform annotation and transcription entirely in Japanese
- Independent contractor status
- Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support
- Nice-to-have: AI training data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation
- 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 that can be completed on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Competitive pay
- Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
- Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems
- Referral bonus of up to $140 per successful referral
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