PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert – Japanese

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About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • Open and check provided 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 related figures or tables using parent component identifiers
  • Transcribe all text faithfully, including Japanese scripts and handwritten content
  • Flag illegible source regions
  • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting metadata
  • Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced Japanese expert

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
  • Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
  • Fluent Japanese language skills required
  • Must be able to work as an independent contractor
  • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

Benefits

  • Fully remote role
  • Flexible own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Opportunity to work on projects training and enhancing AI systems
  • Collaborate with leading researchers
  • Referral payments of 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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