Japanese Document Annotation Expert - Precise, Structured

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking native Japanese annotators to build training data for Japanese documents, including vertical text and multi-column layouts. You will identify and bound every meaningful region, assign types and reading order, and provide faithful transcriptions with kanji, kana, furigana, and handwritten content.

Quality and accuracy are essential, with a peer review step for every task. Responsibilities include verifying pages, annotating structures, and recording relationships to figures or

Qualifications

• Native-level Japanese ability is required, including kanji, hiragana and katakana.

Responsibilities

• Open and verify tasks; ensure pages are in Japanese, legible and free of personal details.
• Annotate structure by bounding regions and assigning types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships between regions and figures/tables; transcribe faithfully including furigana and handwritten content.
• Capture page metadata and flag illegible regions; review by a second expert.

Skills

Japanese fluency

Attention to detail

Reading comprehension

Job description

Mercor is seeking native Japanese annotators to build training data for Japanese documents, including vertical text and multi-column layouts. You will identify and bound every meaningful region, assign types and reading order, and provide faithful transcriptions with kanji, kana, furigana, and handwritten content.

Quality and accuracy are essential, with a peer review step for every task. Responsibilities include verifying pages, annotating structures, and recording relationships to figures or