Remote Japanese Transcription & Annotation Specialist

mercor; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

mercor is seeking PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Japanese to support AI training data projects. This remote contract role offers the flexibility to work from anywhere while ensuring high-precision transcription and detailed annotation across diverse documents.

You will source Japanese PDFs, annotate structures, record relationships, transcribe content, and capture metadata, collaborating with a second Japanese expert to ensure end-to-end quality.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Native Japanese

Transcription

Editorial work

Attention to detail

Job description

mercor is seeking PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Japanese to support AI training data projects. This remote contract role offers the flexibility to work from anywhere while ensuring high-precision transcription and detailed annotation across diverse documents.

You will source Japanese PDFs, annotate structures, record relationships, transcribe content, and capture metadata, collaborating with a second Japanese expert to ensure end-to-end quality.