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 expert mapping document structure and transcribing text for Mercor’s AI training projects. Reviewing pages with rigorous character-level accuracy across complex Japanese layouts.
Responsibilities
- Open and check assigned PDF annotation tasks
- Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content, and show 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 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 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 faithful Japanese transcriptions for AI training data
- Ensure pages are accurately bounded, typed, ordered, and transcribed before second-expert review
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 and attention to detail
- Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages
- Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
- Japanese-language annotation, labeling, grading, bilingual evaluation, transcription, localization, MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, post-editing, typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization experience are nice-to-have
- Knowledge of Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling is nice-to-have
- Must be able to work as 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
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
- Competitive payment
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral opportunity to earn up to $140 per successful referral
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Japanese PDF annotation expert mapping layouts and transcribing real documents. Creating high - accuracy training data for Mercor’s document AI and frontier - model projects.
Japanese PDF annotator mapping page structure and transcribing Japanese documents. Creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s document AI and frontier model projects.
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Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping document structure and transcribing complex pages. Creating human - authored training data for Mercor’s frontier AI systems.
Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert mapping page structure and transcribing text for Mercor’s AI training datasets. Fully remote independent contract work focused on high - accuracy Japanese documents.
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.