PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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About the role

  • Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping layouts and transcribing documents. Building human-authored training data for Mercor's frontier AI systems.

Responsibilities

  • Open and check assigned Japanese PDF annotation tasks
  • Confirm pages are Japanese, legible, contain real content, and have 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 faithfully in Japanese script, including 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 training data for document AI models

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-language transcription experience
  • Japanese document familiarity, including handwriting, dense layouts, tables, diagrams, and mixed-script pages
  • H1-B or STEM OPT candidates are not supported
  • Must work as an independent contractor

Benefits

  • Fully remote role
  • Work on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
  • Competitive pay
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Referral opportunity earning 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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