Malayalam Document Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr

mercor; India; Remote; INR 1,432,000 - 2,039,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs and offers a remote contract role. You will source Malayalam PDFs, annotate and transcribe with exact character accuracy, and capture comprehensive page metadata.

The role requires handling complex layouts, including multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms, with peer-review in a remote setting. The position is contract-based, remote, and pays $13/hour, reflecting market norms for specialized linguistic

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Source Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and record sources.
• Annotate page regions, assign types and reading order indices.
• Record region relationships to parent components.
• Transcribe text exactly as Malayalam, flag illegible regions.
• Capture metadata: language, type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review colleague work end-to-end.

Skills

Malayalam

Annotation experience

Transcription

Localization

Character accuracy

Taxonomy consistency

Job description

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.

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

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents: find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and record their sources.
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page and assign component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships: link each region to its parent component through an identifier.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script , flagging illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: document language, type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: experienced annotators review tasks end to end.

Qualifications Must-Have

• Native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, 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, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization, such as MTPE, subtitling, or OCR correction.
• Document production experience: typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading.
• Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization , input methods, numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.

Originally posted on Himalayas