Odia Transcription Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/Hr - Remote

Mercor; Almada; Remote; EUR 12,000 - 17,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an Odia Transcription Expert for a fully remote role. You will faithfully transcribe document content in Odia, annotate page structure, and ensure precise reading order and region typing across complex layouts.

The role requires native Odia fluency, meticulous transcription accuracy, and experience with diverse document formats. Remote work flexibility is offered for this project located in Caparica, Portugal.

Qualifications

• Native Odiya speaker with full command of script, diacritics and conjunct forms.
• High attention to character-level accuracy and orthography.

Responsibilities

• Open and verify that a page is in Odiya and ready for annotation.
• Annotate structure by bounding regions and assigning type and reading order.
• Record relationships between regions and their parent figures or tables.
• Transcribe faithfully in Odiya, including handwritten content, noting illegible areas.
• Capture page metadata: language, type, source, dimensions, and flags.
• Participate in peer review of work to ensure quality on first pass.

Skills

Odiya native speaker

Attention to detail

Reading Odiya script

Job description

Odiya. Native fluency in Odiya (Oriya), including full command of Odiya script and orthography, is required for this position. All annotation and transcription work is performed in Odiya.

Why This Role Exists Document understanding breaks down fastest in the languages that parsing and vision-language models rarely see. This project builds training data for exactly those languages: Odiya, alongside four other Indic scripts, Japanese and Korean. Each task takes a real, publicly available PDF page and produces a complete structural map of that page, paired with a faithful transcription of every text region in the original script.

The dataset deliberately concentrates on the material models handle worst: handwriting, dense multi-column layouts, tables, diagrams, and mixed-script pages. Documents are drawn from newspapers, textbooks, examinations, and everyday formats such as flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices and worksheets, so that the corpus reflects the real diversity of Odiya documents rather than a narrow band of easily parsed ones.

Delivered work is human-authored throughout. Component identification, component typing, reading order and all transcription are performed by people, not generated by parsing models.

What You'll Do

Open and check a task: pages are provided, so you do not source documents yourself. We find the PDFs and upload them for you. Before annotating, confirm the page is in Odiya, is legible, has real content, and shows no personal details

Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page - document title, section heading, paragraph, list, table, figure, diagram, caption, formula, question, answer field - and assign each a component type and a reading-order index

Record relationships: link each region to the figure or table it belongs to through a parent component identifier

Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Odiya script, including handwritten content, flagging any region where the source is not legible

Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas and handwriting

Review a colleague's work: every task is reviewed end to end by a second Odiya expert, and experienced annotators take on that review

Who You Are

You are a native Odiya speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics and its conjunct forms

You have worked with documents: annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review

You are exact: character-level accuracy matters more here than speed, and a single wrong diacritic is a defect

You are systematic: you apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages rather than improvising per document

You are comfortable with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms

Nice-to-Have Specialties

• Regional-language AI data: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for training datasets
• Transcription and localization: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction or post-editing
• Document production: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Odiya-language material
• Script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Odiya input methods, numeral-form and character-form accuracy

What Success Looks Like

Every meaningful region on the page is captured, correctly bounded and correctly typed

Reading order reflects how the page is actually read, including across columns

Transcriptions match the source character for character, in Odiya script rather than transliteration

Your tasks pass second-expert review the first time

Unsuitable pages are flagged up front rather than after thirty minutes of work

Why Join Mercor

Build the training data that makes document AI work in scripts it currently handles badly

Work from real published Odiya documents rather than synthetic or templated pages

Quality leads on this project: accuracy is the first measure, with handling time tracked alongside it

Odia Transcription Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/Hr - Remote Caparica, Portuguese Republic, PT