Malayalam Annotation & Transcription Expert

Mercor; Oslo; On-site; NOK 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking skilled Malayalam annotators to build high-quality, language-specific training data for document AI. You will handle complex layouts, handwritten and scanned content, ensuring precise transcription and structure mapping.

Applicants are native Malayalam speakers with meticulous attention to diacritics and reading order, capable of consistent taxonomy across hundreds of pages and comfortable with diverse document types.

Qualifications

• Native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script and conjunct forms.
• Experience with annotation, transcription, localization, subtitling, proofreading or regional-language data review.
• Character-level accuracy matters; a single diacritic error is a defect.

Responsibilities

• Source documents: find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs containing at least one multimodal element.
• Annotate structure: bound every meaningful region and assign type and reading-order index.
• Record relationships: link regions to their parent figure or table via ID.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce text exactly in Malayalam script, flag unreadable regions.
• Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, page dimensions, flags for tables, formulas and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: every task reviewed by a second Malayalam expert.

Skills

Malayalam

Attention to detail

Document annotation

Job description

Mercor is seeking skilled Malayalam annotators to build high-quality, language-specific training data for document AI. You will handle complex layouts, handwritten and scanned content, ensuring precise transcription and structure mapping.

Applicants are native Malayalam speakers with meticulous attention to diacritics and reading order, capable of consistent taxonomy across hundreds of pages and comfortable with diverse document types.