Japanese PDF Annotation Specialist

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco our investors include Benchmark General Catalyst Peter Thiel Adam DAngelo Larry Summers and Jack Dorsey.

Position: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts Japanese
Type: Contract
Compensation: $34/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Japanese PDFs with multimodal elements and record their origins.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region assigning component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships by linking regions to their parent components like figures or tables.
• Transcribe faithfully reproducing all text exactly as it appears including kanji hiragana katakana and handwritten content.
• Capture page metadata such as language document type source page dimensions and flags for tables and handwriting.
• Review a colleagues work ensuring tasks are reviewed end-to-end by a second Japanese expert.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji hiragana and katakana.
• Professional experience in interpretation journalism transcription translation or editorial work.
• Exact character-level accuracy prioritizing precision over speed.
• Systematic approach applying a taxonomy consistently across documents.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.

Preferred

• Experience with AI training data annotation labeling or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization including MTPE subtitling and OCR correction.
• Document production experience such as typesetting copy-editing or proofreading.
• Knowledge of script and encoding including Unicode normalization and Japanese input methods.

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