Gujarati PDF Annotation Specialist

Mercor; Dublin; Remote; EUR 13,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is hiring a PDF annotation and transcription expert fluent in Gujarati to work remotely from Ireland. The role involves locating Gujarati PDFs, annotating structure, assigning component types, and ensuring accurate Gujarati transcription, including handwriting, with rigorous quality checks.

You will record page metadata, manage language flags, and coordinate with a second Gujarati expert for end-to-end review.

Qualifications

• Native Gujarati speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, or regional-language data review.
• High character-level accuracy.
• Systematic approach to applying taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source Gujarati PDFs with multimodal content for annotation.
• Annotate regions and assign types and reading order.
• Transcribe Gujarati text faithfully and flag illegible areas; review with a colleague.

Skills

Gujarati language

Data annotation

Transcription

Quality control

Tools

OCR tools

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 – Gujarati

Type: Contract

Compensation: $13/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

Source documents by finding publicly accessible Gujarati PDFs with multimodal elements like images, tables, or handwriting. Annotate structure by identifying and bounding meaningful regions such as titles, headings, and figures, and assign component types and reading-order indices. Record relationships by linking each region to its parent component, such as figures or tables. Transcribe text faithfully in Gujarati script , including handwritten content, and flag illegible regions. Capture page metadata including language, document type, source, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting. Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end to end by a second Gujarati expert .

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Gujarati speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, or regional-language data review.
• High character-level accuracy.
• Systematic approach to applying taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Preferred

• Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization, such as MTPE , subtitling, or OCR correction.
• Document production experience in typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading Gujarati-language material.
• Knowledge of script and encoding, including Unicode normalization .

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