Bengali Document Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr

mercor; Finland; Remote; EUR 14,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Bengali for a remote contract role. You will source Bengali PDFs with multimodal content, annotate structure with precise region types, and transcribe text verbatim in Bengali script.

A two-person review ensures quality and accuracy across hundreds of pages. Must be a native Bengali speaker with exact character-level accuracy and experience in document-related tasks such as annotation, transcription, localization, or proofreading.

Qualifications

• Native Bengali speaker with full command of script, diacritics, conjunct forms.
• Experience with documents: annotation, transcription, localization, proofreading, or related data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy; single wrong diacritic is a defect.
• Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source Bengali PDFs with multimodal elements and record sources.
• Annotate structure: bound and label regions with types and reading order.
• Record relationships: link regions to parent tables/figures.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce Bengali text exactly, flag illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work end-to-end as part of a two-person review.

Skills

Bengali fluency

High accuracy

Taxonomy application

Adaptability

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 – Bengali

Type: Contract

Compensation: $13/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Bengali speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics, and its conjunct forms.
• Experience with documents: annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy; a single wrong diacritic is a defect.
• Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms.

Preferred

• 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 Bengali-language material.
• Script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Bengali input methods, numeral-form and character-form accuracy.