Remote Odia Transcription Expert (Contract)

mercor; Belgique; Remote; EUR 15,000 - 17,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Native Odia speaker

Odia transcription

Annotation experience

Translation/localization

Quality assurance

Attention to detail

Job description

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.