Japanese Pdf Annotation Specialist

Mercor; Lombardia; Remote; EUR 36,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor cerca specialisti di annotazione PDF e trascrizione in giapponese per progetti di data labeling per l’AI. Il ruolo richiede padronanza completa di kanji, hiragana e katakana e una precisione carattere per carattere. Lavoro remoto con controllo qualità: rivedere i lavori di un collega e assicurare coerenza e accuratezza delle annotazioni.

Esperienza in trascrizione/editoria o giornalismo richiesta. La posizione è a contratto e si concentra sull'identificazione di strutture, elementi

Qualifications

• Madrelingua giapponese con pieno dominio di kanji, hiragana e katakana.
• Esperienza in interpretazione, giornalismo, trascrizione, traduzione o lavoro editoriale.
• Precisione a livello di caratteri, applicando un taxonoma coerente.

Responsibilities

• Estrarre documenti PDF giapponesi con elementi multimediali ed annotarne origine.
• Annotare la struttura identificando regioni importanti e tipi di componente.
• Collegare relazioni tra regioni ed elementi come figure o tabelle.
• Trascrivere fedelmente il testo in kanji, hiragana e katakana.
• Catturare metadati di pagina (lingua, tipo documento, dimensioni, presenza di tabelle).
• Revisionare il lavoro di un collega per garantire la revisione completa.

Skills

Japanese language

Attention to detail

Transcription/translation

Editorial background

Job description

Luogo di lavoro: Milano

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 - Japanese

Type: Contract

Compensation: $34/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Japanese PDFs with multimodal elements and record their origins.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region, assigning component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships by linking regions to their parent components like figures or tables.
• Transcribe faithfully, reproducing all text exactly as it appears, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, and handwritten content.
• Capture page metadata such as language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end-to-end by a second Japanese expert.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
• Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
• Exact character-level accuracy, prioritizing precision over speed.
• Systematic approach, applying a taxonomy consistently across documents.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.

Preferred

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