Odia Document Annotation Specialist

Mercor; Oslo fylke; Remote; NOK 144,000 - 197,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks an Odia PDF annotation and transcription expert for a remote contract role. You will locate Odia PDFs, annotate and bound sections, transcribe content exactly as written, and record page metadata. Collaboration with a second Odia expert for quality reviews is required.

Excellent Odia fluency and accuracy are essential. Responsibilities include documenting language, source, dimensions, and relationships between regions.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Odia native

Annotation experience

Character accuracy

Taxonomy across pages

Layout flexibility

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

Role 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.