PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert – Japanese
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and text. Creating human-authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI systems.
Responsibilities:
- Open and check assigned Japanese PDF pages for 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 indices
- Link regions to their associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
- Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content
- Flag regions where the source is not legible
- Capture metadata including 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
- Work with real published Japanese documents from newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets
- 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
- Fluent Japanese required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
- 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 working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
- 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: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Japanese-language material
- Nice-to-have: Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling
- Independent contractor status
- Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship
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
- Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers
- Referral payments of up to $140 for each successful referral, subject to referral limits
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
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