Malayalam Data Annotation & Transcription Specialist

Mercor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a native Malayalam speaker to annotate complex documents. You will locate publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and create precise structure maps, bounding titles, headings, paragraphs, tables, figures and diagrams, while preserving original scripts.

You will ensure character-level transcription accuracy, maintain reading order across columns, and participate in peer reviews to guarantee high-quality data for training multilingual AI models.

Qualifications

• Native Malayalam speaker with full command of Malayalam script and orthography.
• Experience with document annotation, transcription, or localization is a plus.
• Extreme accuracy and systematic approach to hundreds of pages.

Responsibilities

• Source documents: find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements.
• Annotate structure: bound every meaningful region and assign type and reading order.
• Record relationships: link regions to their parent figures or tables.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce text exactly in Malayalam script, noting illegible regions.

Skills

Malayalam proficiency

Attention to detail

Multicolumn document handling

Reading order understanding

Job description

Mercor is seeking a native Malayalam speaker to annotate complex documents. You will locate publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and create precise structure maps, bounding titles, headings, paragraphs, tables, figures and diagrams, while preserving original scripts.

You will ensure character-level transcription accuracy, maintain reading order across columns, and participate in peer reviews to guarantee high-quality data for training multilingual AI models.