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.
About the role
- Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and transcribing Japanese text. Creating high-quality human-authored training data for Mercor’s document 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 associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
- Transcribe all text exactly as it appears, 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' annotation work end to end
- Produce human-authored structural annotations and transcriptions for AI training data
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 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 required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
- Independent contractor status
- Must be able to work with unfamiliar document layouts
- H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported
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
- Competitive pay
- Opportunity to work with leading researchers
- Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems
- Referral bonus of up to $140 per successful referral
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
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