Malayalam Document Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr

mercor; España; Remote; EUR 16,000 - 18,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor offers a contract remote role focused on Malayalam data annotation, transcription, and localization. You will source Malayalam PDFs, bound page regions with component types, and ensure precise character-level transcription with metadata capture.

Ideal candidates will have native Malayalam proficiency, experience in annotation/translation, and meticulous attention to detail, adapting to multi-column and handwritten formats.

Qualifications

• Native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, localization, or regional-language 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 publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and record their sources.
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page and assign component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships: link each region to its parent component through an identifier.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script , flagging illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: document language, type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: experienced annotators review tasks end to end.

Skills

Malayalam fluency

Annotation experience

Transcription

Localization

Attention to detail

Job description

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Type: Contract Compensation: $13/hour Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents: find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and record their sources.
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page and assign component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships: link each region to its parent component through an identifier.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script , flagging illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: document language, type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: experienced annotators review tasks end to end.

Qualifications Must-Have

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

Preferred

• Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization, such as MTPE, subtitling, or OCR correction.
• Document production experience: typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading.
• Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization , input methods, numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.

Originally posted on Himalayas