PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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About the role

  • Japanese PDF annotation expert mapping document structure and transcribing complex pages for Mercor. Building human-authored training data to improve frontier AI systems.

Responsibilities

  • Open and check provided PDF annotation tasks
  • Confirm pages are in 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 in Japanese script, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana and handwritten content
  • Flag illegible source regions
  • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula and handwriting flags
  • Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced annotator
  • Produce human-authored structural maps and transcriptions for AI training data

Requirements

  • Native fluency in Japanese
  • 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 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
  • Japanese-language document annotation, labeling, grading, bilingual evaluation, transcription, localization, MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, post-editing, typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, digitization, Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling are nice-to-have specialties
  • Must be 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
  • Collaboration with leading researchers
  • Competitive pay
  • Referral earnings 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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