Remote Japanese PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert

mercor; Österreich; Remote; EUR 37,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Japanese to join our remote workforce. You will accurately transcribe and annotate PDFs with complex layouts, including vertical text and multi-column structures, while preserving exact characters.

Responsibilities include sourcing pages, bounding regions, linking components, recording metadata, and ensuring peer-review of work by a second Japanese expert. Prior experience in transcription/editorial work is preferred.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end-to-end by a second Japanese expert.

Skills

Native Japanese speaker

Attention to detail

Systematic approach

Transcription experience

Editorial experience

Job description

Mercor is seeking PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Japanese to join our remote workforce. You will accurately transcribe and annotate PDFs with complex layouts, including vertical text and multi-column structures, while preserving exact characters.

Responsibilities include sourcing pages, bounding regions, linking components, recording metadata, and ensuring peer-review of work by a second Japanese expert. Prior experience in transcription/editorial work is preferred.