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




