PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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About the role

  • Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping complex document layouts and transcribing text exactly. Creating human-authored training data for Mercor's frontier AI projects.

Responsibilities

  • Open and check provided 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 indexes
  • Link regions to their parent figures or tables
  • Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including Japanese scripts, 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 a second Japanese expert when experienced
  • Produce human-authored training data for document AI and frontier AI systems

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 strong attention to detail
  • Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages
  • Comfortable with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers and handwritten forms
  • Fluent Japanese language skills 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
  • 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: 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 schedule; work on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
  • Work on real published Japanese documents rather than synthetic or templated pages
  • Quality-focused project with accuracy as the first measure
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Referral opportunity offering up to $140 per successful referral

Job title

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$34 per hour

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteJapan

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