Odia Document Annotation Specialist

Mercor; Madrid; Remote; EUR 13,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts fluent in Odia for a remote contract role. You will source Odia PDFs, delineate page regions, bind reading order, and transcribe exact Odia text, including handwritten content.

Document metadata, link regions to figures or tables, and review work for a second Odia expert. You will apply a consistent taxonomy across pages, handle multi-column layouts, and ensure character-level accuracy.

Qualifications

• Native Odia 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 a publicly accessible Odia PDF with multimodal elements.
• Annotate structure: bound every meaningful region, assign component type and reading order.
• Record relationships: link regions to their parent component (figure/table).
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce Odia text exactly, flag illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: language, type, source, dimensions, and handwriting flags.

Skills

Odia language

Annotation

Transcription

Localization

Character-level accuracy

Taxonomy application

Tools

OCR tools

MTPE

Subtitling

Post-editing

Job description

About the job

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.

Position: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Odia
Type: Contract
Compensation: $13/hour
Location: Remote

Role 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.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Odia speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, 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, grading, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Document production skills: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Odia-language material.
• Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Odia input methods, numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [e-mail]