PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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About the role

  • Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert creating structural maps and faithful transcriptions for Mercor's document AI training projects. Reviewing Japanese-language pages for character-level accuracy.

Responsibilities

  • Open and check provided PDF annotation tasks
  • Confirm each page is in Japanese, legible, contains real content and has 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 their parent figures or tables
  • 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 and handwriting flags
  • Review colleagues' work end to end as a second Japanese expert
  • Produce human-authored training data for document AI systems

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 working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers and handwritten forms
  • Fluent Japanese language skills required
  • Independent contractor status
  • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship

Benefits

  • Fully remote work
  • Flexible schedule; work can be completed on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Opportunity to work on projects with leading AI labs and enterprises
  • Competitive pay
  • Referral bonus of up to $140 per successful referral
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request

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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