Odia Transcription Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr

mercor; Ireland; Remote; EUR 15,000 - 17,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Odia for remote contract work. The role focuses on meticulous OCR-like tasks: marking page regions, assigning types, and ensuring exact Odia transcription while noting illegible sections.

You will also document metadata and cross-check work with a colleague to ensure high accuracy. Ideal candidates are native Odia speakers with proven experience in annotation or related linguistic/data-review tasks, capable of handling

Qualifications

• Must be a native Odia speaker with full command of the script.
• Exact character-level accuracy across tasks is required.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Source publicly accessible Odia PDFs for annotation.
• Identify and bound every meaningful region of the page with component types and reading order.
• Record relationships linking regions to parent components (figures/tables).
• Transcribe exactly as in Odia script, including handwritten content and flag illegible parts.
• Capture page metadata: language, type, source, page dimensions, and handwriting/ table flags.
• Review a colleague's work for end-to-end accuracy.

Skills

Native Odia

Character-level accuracy

Annotation experience

Transcription

Localization

Subtitling

Proofreading

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 – Odia Type: Contract Compensation: $13/hour Location: Remote

Responsibilities

• Source documents: Find a publicly accessible Odia PDF in an assigned document type with multimodal elements. Record the source.
• Annotate structure: Identify and bound every meaningful region of the page. Assign each a component type and a reading-order index.
• Record relationships: Link each region to its parent component, such as a figure or table.
• Transcribe faithfully: Reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Odia script , including handwritten content. Flag any illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: Document language, type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: Conduct end-to-end reviews of tasks by a second Odia expert .

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Odia speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy.
• Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Preferred

• Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization: MTPE , subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Document production skills: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Odia-language material.
• Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization , Odia input methods , numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.