Bengali Document Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $12/hr

mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 12,000 - 19,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a contractor to annotate and transcribe Bengali documents remotely. The role requires precise Bengali script handling, expert-level transcription, and accurate page-level metadata capture across varied layouts.

The project involves end-to-end review by a second Bengali expert, ensuring high-quality results for AI data labeling and localization tasks.

Qualifications

• Native Bengali speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics, and conjunct forms.
• Experience with documents: annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy; a single wrong diacritic is a defect.
• Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source Bengali PDFs with multimodal elements and record sources.
• Annotate structure: identify and bound all regions and assign types and reading order.
• Record relationships: link regions to their parent tables/figures.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce Bengali text exactly, flag unreadable regions.
• Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags.
• Review a colleague's work: second Bengali expert reviews all tasks.

Skills

Native Bengali

Diacritic accuracy

Taxonomy application

Handwritten forms

Layout adaptability

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 – Bengali

Type: Contract

Compensation: $13/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents: find a publicly accessible Bengali PDF in an assigned document type, containing at least one multimodal element (images, tables, diagrams, or handwriting), and record where you obtained it.
• 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 Bengali 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 Bengali expert, and experienced annotators take on that review.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Bengali speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics, and its conjunct forms.
• Experience with documents: annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy; a single wrong diacritic is a defect.
• Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms.

Preferred

• 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 Bengali-language material.
• Script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Bengali input methods, numeral-form and character-form accuracy.