Odia PDF Annotation & Transcription Specialist (Remote)

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

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.