PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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Annotating Japanese PDF structures and transcribing text for Mercor’s AI training datasets. Reviewing page regions, reading order, metadata, and character-level accuracy.

Responsibilities:

  • Open and check assigned 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 indices
  • Link regions to associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
  • Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including Japanese scripts, furigana, and handwriting
  • Flag illegible source regions
  • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table/formula/handwriting flags
  • Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced annotator

Requirements:

  • Native fluency in Japanese, including full command of kanji, hiragana and katakana
  • Full command of 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
  • 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: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Japanese-language material
  • Nice-to-have: Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling
  • Independent contractor engagement
  • Must be eligible to work without H1-B or STEM OPT support

Benefits:

  • Fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Opportunity to work on projects training and enhancing AI systems
  • Competitive pay
  • Collaborate with leading researchers
  • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems
  • Referral payments of up to $140 for each successful referral