Bengali Transcription and Annotation Expert

Mercor; Dublin; Remote; EUR 16,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert (Bengali) for remote contract work. You will source Bengali PDFs with multimodal elements, annotate regions, bind to reading order, and transcribe text exactly as it appears, including handwriting.

You will also record metadata, connect regions to figures/tables, and participate in end-to-end peer reviews with another Bengali expert to ensure high quality and accuracy.

Qualifications

• Native Bengali speaker with full command of the script and conjunct forms.
• Experience with document annotation, transcription, localization, or QA.
• Exact character-level accuracy; a single wrong diacritic is a defect.
• Systematic application of a taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts such as multi-column layouts and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source Bengali PDFs that are publicly accessible and contain multimodal elements; log the source.
• Annotate structure: bound regions with type and reading-order index.
• Record relationships: link regions to their parent figure or table.
• Transcribe Bengali text exactly as written, including handwriting.
• Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, dimensions, flags for tables or handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work in a peer-review process.

Skills

Bengali native

Document annotation

Exact character accuracy

Taxonomy consistency

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.