PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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About the role

  • Japanese PDF annotator mapping page structure and transcribing Japanese documents. Creating human-authored training data for Mercor’s document AI and frontier model projects.

Responsibilities

  • Open and check assigned Japanese PDF pages for language, legibility, real content, and absence of 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 related figures or tables using parent component identifiers
  • Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content
  • Flag illegible regions
  • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting metadata
  • Review colleagues' work end to end as a second Japanese expert when experienced
  • Work on human-authored training data for document 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
  • Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
  • 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
  • Competitive pay
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Referral payments of up to $140 for successful referrals

Job title

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$31 per hour

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Location requirements

RemoteJapan

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