Gujarati PDF Annotation Specialist

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor, a remote-friendly contract team, seeks a Gujarati PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert to join our distributed workflow. You will locate Gujarati PDFs with multimodal elements and annotate structure, transcribe text, and capture metadata, all in Gujarati script.

Ideal candidates are native Gujarati speakers with experience in annotation, transcription, or related data review, and a meticulous approach to multi-column layouts and handwritten forms.

Qualifications

• Native Gujarati speaker with full script command.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, or regional-language data review.
• High character-level accuracy.
• Systematic approach to applying taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Gujarati PDFs with multimodal elements like images, tables, or handwriting.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding meaningful regions such as titles, headings, and figures, and assign component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships by linking each region to its parent component, such as figures or tables.
• Transcribe text faithfully in Gujarati script , including handwritten content, and flag illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata including language, document type, source, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end to end by a second Gujarati expert .

Skills

Gujarati

Annotation

Transcription

Localization

Character accuracy

Taxonomy

Handwriting

Unicode encoding

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 – Gujarati

Type: Contract

Compensation: $13/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Gujarati PDFs with multimodal elements like images, tables, or handwriting.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding meaningful regions such as titles, headings, and figures, and assign component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships by linking each region to its parent component, such as figures or tables.
• Transcribe text faithfully in Gujarati script , including handwritten content, and flag illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata including language, document type, source, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end to end by a second Gujarati expert .

Qualifications Must-Have

• Native Gujarati speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, or regional-language data review.
• High character-level accuracy.
• Systematic approach to applying taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Preferred

• Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization, such as MTPE , subtitling, or OCR correction.
• Document production experience in typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading Gujarati-language material.
• Knowledge of script and encoding, including Unicode normalization .