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

mercor; Belgique; Remoto; EUR 15.000 - 17.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Mercor is seeking a contract PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert for Odia language work. The role involves locating Odia PDFs with multimodal elements and annotating every region with precise component types and reading orders.

You will transcribe faithfully in Odia script, including handwritten content, and record page metadata. Collaboration with a second Odia expert is required to review tasks for accuracy.

Competenze

• Must be a 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 and systematic taxonomy application across pages.

Mansioni

• Source documents: find publicly accessible Odia PDFs in assigned types with multimodal elements.
• Annotate structure: bound pages into meaningful regions with component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships: link regions to their parent components (figures, tables).
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce Odia text exactly, including handwritten content; flag illegible parts.
• Capture page metadata: language, type, source, page dimensions, flags for tables, formulas and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: conduct end-to-end reviews for a second Odia expert.

Conoscenze

Native Odia speaker

Odia transcription

Annotation experience

Translation/localization

Quality assurance

Attention to detail

Descrizione del lavoro

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.