PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese
Posted 9hrs ago
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Job Description
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and faithfully transcribing published pages. Creating human-authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI partners.
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 related figures or tables through parent component identifiers
- 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
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
- Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers and handwritten forms
- Japanese fluency required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
- Independent contractor status
- Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Opportunity to work on frontier AI training projects
- Collaboration with leading researchers
- Referral payments of up to $140 for each successful referral (limits apply)
- Reasonable accommodations upon request



