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
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and faithfully transcribing published pages. Creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI partners.
Japanese PDF annotation expert mapping layouts and transcribing real documents. Creating high - accuracy training data for Mercor’s document AI and frontier - model projects.
Japanese PDF annotator mapping page structure and transcribing Japanese documents. Creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s document AI and frontier model projects.
Japanese PDF annotation expert mapping layouts and transcribing real documents for Mercor’s AI training projects. Ensuring character - level accuracy across complex Japanese pages.
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and transcribing complex pages. Creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI systems.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping page structure and transcribing text for Mercor’s AI training datasets. Fully remote independent contract work focused on high - accuracy Japanese documents.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s document AI projects. Mapping document structure and transcribing Japanese text character by character.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and faithfully transcribing text. Creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI projects.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert creating training data for Mercor’s document AI projects. Structuring pages and transcribing Japanese text for frontier AI models.