PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Japanese

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About the role

  • Japanese PDF annotation and transcription expert creating structural annotations and faithful transcriptions. Building human-authored training data for Mercor’s document AI projects.

Responsibilities

  • Open and check provided PDF annotation 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 indexes
  • Link regions to their 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
  • Produce human-authored training data for document AI models

Requirements

  • Native Japanese speaker with 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 strong 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; all work is performed in Japanese
  • Ability to work as an independent contractor
  • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

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
  • Opportunity to work with leading researchers and contribute to next-generation AI systems
  • Referral payments of up to $140 per successful referral (restrictions may apply)
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request

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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