Odia Transcription Specialist - Remote

mercor; Denmark; Remote; DKK 99,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The Odia Annotation & Transcription Experts role is remote on a contract basis, offering $13/hour.

You will source Odia PDFs, annotate structure, record relationships, and transcribe faithfully. You must be a native Odia speaker with exact character-level accuracy and experience in annotation, transcription, localization, or related data tasks, comfortable with multi-column layouts and handwritten forms, and able

Qualifications

• Native Odia speaker with full command of the Odia script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, localization, or linguistic data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy.
• Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

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.

Skills

Odia language fluency

Transcription accuracy

Annotation experience

Job description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. The Odia Annotation & Transcription Experts role is remote on a contract basis, offering $13/hour.

You will source Odia PDFs, annotate structure, record relationships, and transcribe faithfully. You must be a native Odia speaker with exact character-level accuracy and experience in annotation, transcription, localization, or related data tasks, comfortable with multi-column layouts and handwritten forms, and able