Odia Transcription Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr

mercor; Österreich; Remote; EUR 13,000 - 19,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is hiring PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts for Odia language on a remote contract.

You will source Odia PDFs, annotate structure, transcribe precisely, and review colleagues' work, ensuring exact Odia script fidelity and metadata capture. This role suits native Odia speakers comfortable with diverse layouts and handwriting. Competitive $13/hour rate.

Qualifications

• Must speak Odia natively and read/write the Odia script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, proofreading, or data review.
• Ability to reproduce text exactly with character-level accuracy.
• Familiar with multi-column layouts and handwritten forms.
• Strong attention to taxonomy and metadata for OCR tasks.

Responsibilities

• Source Odia PDFs and record sources.
• Annotate regions with types and reading order.
• Link regions to their parent components.
• Transcribe text exactly in Odia, incl. handwriting.
• Capture page metadata and flags.
• Review others' work for quality.

Skills

Native Odia

Annotation

Transcription

Localization

Quality accuracy

Job description

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 D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey . Position: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Odia Type: Contract Compensation: $13/hour Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Source documents: Find a publicly accessible Odia PDF in an assigned document type with multimodal elements. Record the source.
• Annotate structure: Identify and bound every meaningful region of the page. Assign each a component type and a reading-order index.
• Record relationships: Link each region to its parent component, such as a figure or table.
• Transcribe faithfully: Reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Odia script , including handwritten content. Flag any illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: Document language, type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: Conduct end-to-end reviews of tasks by a second Odia expert .

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Odia speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy.
• Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Preferred

• Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization: MTPE , subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Document production skills: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Odia-language material.
• Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization , Odia input methods , numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.