Remote Japanese Transcription & Annotation Specialist

mercor; France; Remote; EUR 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Japanese to join our remote team. You will source documents, annotate structure, transcribe kanji/hiragana/katakana, and capture metadata with high precision for AI training data projects.

The role is a contract position paying $34 per hour, with emphasis on exact character-level accuracy, handling unfamiliar layouts such as vertical text and multi-column newspapers, and collaborating with a second Japanese expert to review

Qualifications

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
• Professional experience in interpretation, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
• Exact character-level accuracy and precision over speed.
• Systematic approach applying a taxonomy consistently.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.

Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Japanese PDFs with multimodal elements and record their origins.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region, assigning component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships by linking regions to their parent components like figures or tables.
• Transcribe faithfully, reproducing all text exactly as it appears, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, and handwritten content.
• Capture page metadata such as language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end-to-end by a second Japanese expert.

Skills

Native Japanese speaker

Experience in transcription

Exact character-level accuracy

Systematic taxonomy

Comfort with vertical text layouts

Job description

Mercor is seeking PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Japanese to join our remote team. You will source documents, annotate structure, transcribe kanji/hiragana/katakana, and capture metadata with high precision for AI training data projects.

The role is a contract position paying $34 per hour, with emphasis on exact character-level accuracy, handling unfamiliar layouts such as vertical text and multi-column newspapers, and collaborating with a second Japanese expert to review