Bengali Document Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr

mercor; Belgique; Remote; EUR 13,000 - 19,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks a PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert for Bengali to work remotely on contract basis. Tasks include locating Bengali PDFs with multimodal content, detailed structure annotation, and faithful transcription in Bengali script with exact accuracy.

Responsibilities cover capturing page metadata, establishing relationships between regions, and peer-reviewed quality checks. Fluency in Bengali and experience with document annotation are essential.

Qualifications

• Native Bengali speaker with full command of Bengali script, diacritics and conjunct forms.
• Experience with documents: annotation, transcription, localization, proofreading, or data review.

Responsibilities

• Source Bengali PDFs that are publicly accessible and contain multimodal elements.
• Annotate structure: bound page regions and assign component types and reading order indexes.
• Record relationships by linking regions to their parent figure or table identifiers.
• Transcribe faithfully in Bengali, including handwritten content, flagging illegible areas.
• Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, page dimensions, and handwriting flags.
• Review work end-to-end with a second Bengali expert.

Skills

Native Bengali speaker

Document annotation experience

Character-level accuracy

Bengali script mastery

Handling unfamiliar layouts

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 – Bengali

Type: Contract

Compensation: $13/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents: find a publicly accessible Bengali PDF in an assigned document type, containing at least one multimodal element (images, tables, diagrams, or handwriting), and record where you obtained it.
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page - document title, section heading, paragraph, list, table, figure, diagram, caption, formula, question, answer field - and assign each a component type and a reading-order index.
• Record relationships: link each region to the figure or table it belongs to through a parent component identifier.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Bengali script, including handwritten content, flagging any region where the source is not legible.
• Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: every task is reviewed end to end by a second Bengali expert, and experienced annotators take on that review.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Bengali speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics, and its conjunct forms.
• Experience with documents: annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy; a single wrong diacritic is a defect.
• Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms.

Preferred

• Regional-language AI data: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for training datasets.
• Transcription and localization: MTPE , subtitling, bilingual QA , OCR correction or post-editing.
• Document production: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Bengali-language material.
• Script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Bengali input methods, numeral-form and character-form accuracy.