PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert – Japanese
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping page structure and transcribing documents. Building human-authored training data for Mercor’s document AI projects.
Responsibilities:
- Open and check assigned PDF pages
- Confirm each page is in Japanese, legible, contains real content, and has 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 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 language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags
- Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced Japanese expert
- Work with real published Japanese documents such as newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets
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
- Native fluency in Japanese
- Character-level accuracy in Japanese transcription
- Ability to apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages
- Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
- Familiarity with Japanese documents and unfamiliar layouts
- Independent contractor status
- Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time
- 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: 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
- 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
- Referral earnings of up to $140 per successful referral (restrictions may apply)
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
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