Native Odia Transcription and Document Annotation Specialist

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

Job summary

Mercor in the United Kingdom seeks native Odiya annotators to create training data for OCR and NLP tasks. You will annotate structure, bound regions, and transcription in Odiya, handling multi-column layouts and handwritten content.

Attention to detail and script accuracy are essential; you will work under quality reviews from a second Odiya expert to ensure the dataset meets project standards, including reading order and region relationships.

Qualifications

• Native Odiya speaker with full script and orthography mastery.
• Experience in document annotation, transcription, or localization is a plus.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to apply consistent taxonomy.

Responsibilities

• Open PDFs provided and verify language, legibility, and content.
• Annotate and bound page regions with types and reading order.
• Record relationships between regions and figures/tables.
• Transcribe text exactly in Odiya script, flagging unreadable parts.
• Capture page metadata and participate in peer reviews.

Skills

Odiya language proficiency

Job description

Mercor in the United Kingdom seeks native Odiya annotators to create training data for OCR and NLP tasks. You will annotate structure, bound regions, and transcription in Odiya, handling multi-column layouts and handwritten content.

Attention to detail and script accuracy are essential; you will work under quality reviews from a second Odiya expert to ensure the dataset meets project standards, including reading order and region relationships.