PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert creating high-fidelity training data for Mercor’s document AI projects. Mapping page structure and transcribing Japanese text character by character.

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
  • Assign component types and reading-order indexes
  • 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 regions
  • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula and handwriting flags
  • Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced annotator
  • Work on human-authored training data for document AI

Requirements:

  • Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana, katakana, 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
  • Must not be an H-1B or STEM OPT candidate
  • 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
  • Flexible own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
  • Competitive pay
  • Collaborate with leading researchers
  • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems
  • Referral payments of up to $140 per successful referral