Korean PDF Annotation Pro — Structure & Transcription

Mercor; Toronto; On-site; CAD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor in Toronto, Canada, seeks a meticulous native Korean annotator for a data-labeling project focused on Korean documents. You will bound and classify every region on a page, ensuring accurate reading order and precise transcription across complex layouts.

Candidates must achieve character-level accuracy, handle Hangul and hanja, and work within a multi-step QA workflow that includes a second Korean expert review. Attention to taxonomy and consistency is essential.

Qualifications

• Native Korean speaker with Hangul proficiency.
• Experience in bilingual transcription, translation, editorial work, or AI training data is a plus.
• Character-level accuracy matters; a single wrong jamo is a defect.
• You are systematic and apply a taxonomy consistently across pages.
• You are comfortable with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column documents, handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Open and check a task: pages are provided, ensure Korean content is legible and contains no personal details.
• Annotate structure: bound every meaningful region and assign type and reading-order index.
• Record relationships: link each region to the figure/table it belongs to via a parent ID.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Hangul, including hanja and handwriting.
• Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: second Korean expert reviews every task end-to-end.

Skills

Korean language

Job description

Mercor in Toronto, Canada, seeks a meticulous native Korean annotator for a data-labeling project focused on Korean documents. You will bound and classify every region on a page, ensuring accurate reading order and precise transcription across complex layouts.

Candidates must achieve character-level accuracy, handle Hangul and hanja, and work within a multi-step QA workflow that includes a second Korean expert review. Attention to taxonomy and consistency is essential.