Bengali Document Specialist - Fully Remote

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 11,000 - 16,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts fluent in Bengali to annotate and transcribe Bengali documents remotely. The role involves identifying and bounding regions, detailing reading order, and ensuring precise Bengali transcription for documents with multimodal content.

You will source and verify Bengali PDFs, annotate all regions, and maintain meticulous records, with strict quality checks by a second Bengali expert. This is a remote contract position paying $13/hour.

Qualifications

• Native Bengali speaker with full command of script, diacritics and conjunct forms.
• Exact character-level accuracy required; familiarity with dedicated language tasks.
• Experience with annotation, transcription, localization, subtitling, proofreading, or data review.

Responsibilities

• Source Bengali PDFs with multimodal content and record sources.
• Annotate page regions with types and reading order indices.
• Link regions to their parent figures or tables.
• Transcribe Bengali content exactly, flag illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata and document relationships; review workflows.
• Undergo end-to-end review by a second Bengali expert.

Skills

Bengali language

Annotation

Transcription

Localization

QA

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.

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]