PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and transcribing original-script text. Building human-authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI systems.
Responsibilities:
- Open and check provided PDF pages for Japanese language, legibility, real content, and absence of personal details
- Identify and bound every meaningful page region and assign component types and reading-order indices
- Link regions to associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
- Transcribe all text faithfully, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content
- Flag illegible source regions
- Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags
- Review colleagues' annotation and transcription work end to end as an experienced annotator
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 with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
- Japanese fluency is required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
- Independent contractor status
- Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time
Benefits:
- Fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Competitive pay
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral payments of up to $140 for each successful referral
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