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 and transcription expert mapping page structure and transcribing documents. Building human-authored training data for Mercor’s document AI projects.
Responsibilities
- Open and check assigned PDF pages
- Confirm each page is in Japanese, legible, contains real content, and has 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 indices
- Link regions to their associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
- Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content
- Flag regions where the source is not legible
- Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags
- Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced Japanese expert
- Work with real published Japanese documents such as newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets
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
- Native fluency in Japanese
- Character-level accuracy in Japanese transcription
- Ability to apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages
- Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
- Familiarity with Japanese documents and unfamiliar layouts
- Independent contractor status
- Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time
- Nice-to-have: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for AI training datasets
- Nice-to-have: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing
- Nice-to-have: Japanese typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization
- Nice-to-have: Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling
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
- Referral earnings of up to $140 per successful referral (restrictions may apply)
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
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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 training data for Mercor’s document AI projects. Structuring pages and transcribing Japanese text for frontier AI models.