Remote Japanese Transcription & PDF Annotation Specialist

mercor; Österreich; Remote; EUR 34,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Japanese to annotate and transcribe complex documents remotely. You will identify origins, mark regions, and ensure reading order while preserving exact character content, including kanji and kana.

Collaboration with a second Japanese expert ensures quality across multilingual training data. The role demands meticulous accuracy, comfort with unusual layouts, and experience in editorial work or translation.

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 with a methodical approach.

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

Attention to detail

Transcription

Editorial work

Quality assurance

Job description

Mercor seeks PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Japanese to annotate and transcribe complex documents remotely. You will identify origins, mark regions, and ensure reading order while preserving exact character content, including kanji and kana.

Collaboration with a second Japanese expert ensures quality across multilingual training data. The role demands meticulous accuracy, comfort with unusual layouts, and experience in editorial work or translation.