PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese
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Japanese PDF annotation expert mapping document structure and transcribing text for Mercor’s AI training projects. Reviewing pages with rigorous character-level accuracy across complex Japanese layouts.
Responsibilities:
- Open and check assigned PDF annotation tasks
- Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content, and show 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 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 source regions
- Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags
- Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced annotator
- Produce human-authored structural maps and faithful Japanese transcriptions for AI training data
- Ensure pages are accurately bounded, typed, ordered, and transcribed before second-expert review
Requirements:
- Native fluency in Japanese
- 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
- Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages
- Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
- Japanese-language annotation, labeling, grading, bilingual evaluation, transcription, localization, MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, post-editing, typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization experience are nice-to-have
- Knowledge of Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling is nice-to-have
- Must be able to work as an independent contractor
- H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported
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 payment
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral opportunity to earn up to $140 per successful referral
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