PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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About the role

  • Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and faithfully transcribing text. Creating human-authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI projects.

Responsibilities

  • Open and check provided PDF 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 indices
  • Link regions to associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
  • 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/handwriting flags
  • Review colleagues' annotation work end to end as an experienced annotator
  • Build 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 strong 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; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
  • Independent contractor status
  • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time

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
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Referral program offering up to $140 per successful referral
  • Competitive pay
  • Collaboration with leading researchers
  • Opportunity to help shape next-generation AI systems

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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