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

mercor; France; Remote; EUR 13,000 - 19,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor in France is seeking PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts fluent in Bengali to work remotely on diverse documents, ensuring exact transcription and meticulous tagging.

You will annotate layouts, record metadata, and participate in peer review, with a focus on accuracy and handling handwritten content.

Qualifications

• Native Bengali speaker with full script knowledge.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, localization, or QA.
• Exact character-level accuracy; diacritics must be correct.
• Systematic taxonomy application across pages.
• Comfort with multi-column layouts and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source Bengali PDFs with multimodal elements and record sources.
• Annotate structure: identify sections, regions, and orders.
• Link regions to corresponding figures/tables via IDs.
• Transcribe Bengali text exactly, flag illegible parts.
• Capture page metadata and hand off for review.

Skills

Native Bengali

Bengali transcription

Annotation workflow

Multimodal documents

Quality accuracy

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.