Native Odia Document Annotation Specialist

Mercor; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 26,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking native Odia speakers to annotate and transcribe Odia documents with exacting character-level accuracy. You will identify and bound meaningful regions, assign types and reading order, and record relationships between regions across diverse layouts such as newspapers, exams, and forms.

You will source publicly accessible Odia PDFs, reproduce text in Odia script, and flag illegible regions. Each task undergoes a second expert review to ensure quality before submission.

Qualifications

• Native Odia speaker with full command of Odia script and conjunct forms.
• Experience with documents: annotation, transcription, localization, QA, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy matters; a single wrong diacritic is a defect.
• Systematic: apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages.
• Comfortable with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source documents: find a publicly accessible Odia 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 Odia 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 Odia expert, and experienced annotators take on that review.

Job description

Mercor is seeking native Odia speakers to annotate and transcribe Odia documents with exacting character-level accuracy. You will identify and bound meaningful regions, assign types and reading order, and record relationships between regions across diverse layouts such as newspapers, exams, and forms.

You will source publicly accessible Odia PDFs, reproduce text in Odia script, and flag illegible regions. Each task undergoes a second expert review to ensure quality before submission.