Korean PDF Annotation Specialist for AI Training

Obsidian; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks a native Korean speaker to annotate and transcribe Korean documents with high accuracy. You will handle real-world PDFs containing handwriting, tables, and layouts, ensuring precise transcription in Hangul and proper region bounding.

You will bound regions, preserve reading order across columns, and flag unreadable sections. Review by a second Korean expert is part of the process, reinforcing strict quality and consistency.

Qualifications

• Native Korean speaker with full Hangul command and hanja knowledge.
• Experience in bilingual transcription, editorial work, or AI training data.
• Extremely high accuracy; character-level precision is essential.
• Systematic approach with consistent taxonomy across pages.

Responsibilities

• Source Korean PDFs with multimodal elements for annotation.
• Annotate page structure with component types and reading order.
• Record relationships between regions and figures/tables.
• Transcribe text exactly in Hangul, flag unreadable regions.
• Capture page metadata and participate in peer review.

Skills

Korean language proficiency

Hangul mastery

Attention to detail

Bilingual transcription

Editorial reviewer experience

Tools

OCR

Job description

Mercor seeks a native Korean speaker to annotate and transcribe Korean documents with high accuracy. You will handle real-world PDFs containing handwriting, tables, and layouts, ensuring precise transcription in Hangul and proper region bounding.

You will bound regions, preserve reading order across columns, and flag unreadable sections. Review by a second Korean expert is part of the process, reinforcing strict quality and consistency.