PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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About the role

  • Japanese PDF annotation expert mapping layouts and transcribing real documents for Mercor. Producing high-accuracy training data for frontier document AI models.

Responsibilities

  • Find publicly accessible Japanese PDFs in assigned document types containing at least one multimodal element
  • Record the source location of each document
  • 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 exactly as it appears, including Japanese scripts, furigana, and handwriting
  • Flag illegible source regions
  • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table/formula/handwriting flags
  • Review colleagues' work end to end as a second Japanese expert
  • Produce human-authored structural annotations and transcriptions for AI training data

Requirements

  • Native fluency in Japanese, including full command of kanji, hiragana and katakana
  • Full command of 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
  • Fluent Japanese language skills required
  • Independent contractor engagement
  • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT support

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 payment
  • Collaboration with leading researchers
  • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems
  • Referral payments of up to $140 per successful referral (separate referral program)

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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