Telugu Document Annotation Specialist

Mercor; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 50.000 - 73.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Mercor is seeking meticulous Telugu language annotators to build a diverse dataset from real Telugu documents, including newspapers, forms and exams. You will bind and label each region, determine reading order, and ensure pixel-accurate transcription in Telugu script.

Collaboration with a second expert ensures quality at every step. You are a native Telugu speaker with exacting accuracy, comfortable with complex layouts, and experienced in document-related work such as annotation,

Qualifikationen

• Must be a native Telugu speaker with full script knowledge.
• Experience with document annotation, transcription, localization or QA is desirable.
• Character-level accuracy and correct diacritics are essential.
• Apply a consistent taxonomy across hundreds of pages.
• Comfort with multi-column layouts, handwritten forms, and varied documents.

Aufgaben

• Source publicly accessible Telugu PDFs with multimodal elements and record the source.
• Annotate structure: bound regions, assign type and reading-order index.
• Link regions to their parent figure or table.
• Transcribe faithfully in Telugu script, flag unreadable text.
• Capture page metadata: language, type, source, dimensions, handwriting/diagrams flags.
• Participate in peer review with a second Telugu expert.

Kenntnisse

Native Telugu speaker

Script fluency

Attention to detail

Document annotation experience

Systematic approach

Reading-order discipline

Tools

Unicode normalization

Jobbeschreibung

Fluent Language Skills Required: Telugu. Native fluency in Telugu, including full command of Telugu script and orthography, is required for this position. All annotation and transcription work is performed in Telugu.

Why This Role Exists

Document understanding breaks down fastest in the languages that parsing and vision-language models rarely see. This project builds training data for exactly those languages: Telugu, alongside four other Indic scripts, Japanese and Korean. Each task takes a real, publicly available PDF page and produces a complete structural map of that page, paired with a faithful transcription of every text region in the original script.

The dataset deliberately concentrates on the material models handle worst: handwriting, dense multi-column layouts, tables, diagrams, and mixed-script pages. Documents are drawn from newspapers, textbooks, examinations, and everyday formats such as flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices and worksheets, so that the corpus reflects the real diversity of Telugu documents rather than a narrow band of easily parsed ones.

Delivered work is human-authored throughout. Component identification, component typing, reading order and all transcription are performed by people, not generated by parsing models.

What You'll Do

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

Who You Are

• You are a native Telugu speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics 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 more here than speed, and a single wrong diacritic is a defect

• You are systematic: you apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages rather than improvising per document

• You are comfortable with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms

Nice-to-Have Specialties

• Regional-language AI data: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for training datasets

• Transcription and localization: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction or post-editing

• Document production: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Telugu-language material

• Script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Telugu input methods, numeral-form and character-form accuracy

What Success Looks Like

• Every meaningful region on the page is captured, correctly bounded and correctly typed

• Reading order reflects how the page is actually read, including across columns

• Transcriptions match the source character for character, in Telugu script rather than transliteration

• Your tasks pass second-expert review the first time

• The documents you bring in add layout diversity rather than repeating templates already in the corpus

Why Join Mercor

• Build the training data that makes document AI work in scripts it currently handles badly

• Work from real published Telugu documents rather than synthetic or templated pages

• Quality leads on this project: accuracy is the first measure, with handling time tracked alongside it