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
- Annotating Japanese PDF structures and transcribing text for Mercor’s AI training datasets. Reviewing page regions, reading order, metadata, and character-level accuracy.
Responsibilities
- Open and check assigned PDF-page tasks
- Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content, and show no personal details
- Identify and bound every meaningful page region
- Assign component types and reading-order indices
- Link regions to associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
- Transcribe all text exactly as shown, 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 an experienced annotator
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
- 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: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Japanese-language material
- Nice-to-have: Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling
- Independent contractor engagement
- Must be eligible to work without H1-B or STEM OPT support
Benefits
- Fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Opportunity to work on projects training and enhancing AI systems
- Competitive pay
- Collaborate with leading researchers
- Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems
- Referral payments of up to $140 for each successful referral
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