Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and faithfully transcribing published pages. Creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI partners.
About the role
- Japanese PDF annotation expert mapping layouts and transcribing real documents for Mercor’s AI training projects. Ensuring character-level accuracy across complex Japanese pages.
Responsibilities
- Open and check provided Japanese PDF-page tasks
- Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content, and show 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 kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content
- Flag illegible source regions
- Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting
- Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced annotator
- Produce human-authored training data for document AI and frontier AI models
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 language skills required: Japanese
- Must be able to reproduce Japanese text in the original script rather than romaji
- Independent contractor status
- H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported
Benefits
- Fully remote role
- Work on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Competitive pay
- Collaborate with leading researchers
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral payments of up to $140 for each successful referral, subject to limits
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Japanese PDF annotation expert mapping layouts and transcribing real documents. Creating high - accuracy training data for Mercor’s document AI and frontier - model projects.
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and transcribing complex pages. Creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI systems.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s document AI projects. Mapping document structure and transcribing Japanese text character by character.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and faithfully transcribing text. Creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI projects.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert creating structural annotations and faithful transcriptions. Building human - authored training data for Mercor’s document AI projects.
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.