Telugu Document Annotation Pro: Structure & Transcription

Mercor; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 24,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a detail-oriented Telugu annotator to map and transcribe Telugu documents with exact character-level accuracy. You will identify, bound, and read all meaningful regions, maintain correct reading order across layouts, and ensure faithful Telugu transcription for diverse document types.

Applicants should be native Telugu speakers with experience in annotation, transcription, localization, and related tasks, and be comfortable with complex, multi-column formats and handwritten

Qualifications

• You are a native Telugu speaker with full command of the Telugu script and its conjunct forms.
• You have worked with documents: annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• You are exact: character-level accuracy matters; a single wrong diacritic is a defect.
• You are systematic: you apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages.
• You are comfortable with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source documents: find a publicly accessible Telugu PDF in an assigned document type, containing at least one multimodal element, and record where you obtained it
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page and assign types and reading-order indices
• Record relationships: link regions to their parent table or figure
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Telugu script
• 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 by a second Telugu expert

Skills

Telugu fluency

Attention to detail

Systematic approach

Job description

Mercor is seeking a detail-oriented Telugu annotator to map and transcribe Telugu documents with exact character-level accuracy. You will identify, bound, and read all meaningful regions, maintain correct reading order across layouts, and ensure faithful Telugu transcription for diverse document types.

Applicants should be native Telugu speakers with experience in annotation, transcription, localization, and related tasks, and be comfortable with complex, multi-column formats and handwritten