Malayalam Data Annotation Specialist - Remote Contract

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 17,000 - 19,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a contract data annotator to locate publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements, and to bound and classify every region for precise reading order.

You will transcribe faithfully in Malayalam, flag illegible sections, and document page metadata such as language, layout type, sources and handwriting indicators. Collaboration with teammates ensures accuracy and consistency across complex documents.

Qualifications

• Native Malayalam speaker with script mastery.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, localization, or data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy required.
• Apply taxonomy consistently across pages.
• Familiar with multi-column layouts and handwriting.

Responsibilities

• Source Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements.
• Annotate and bound meaningful regions with types and indices.
• Record region relationships to parent components.
• Transcribe text exactly as Malayalam script; mark illegible parts.
• Capture metadata: language, type, source, dimensions, flags.
• Review colleague work end-to-end.

Skills

Malayalam language proficiency

Annotation experience

Transcription accuracy

Localization familiarity

Handling unfamiliar layouts

Tools

Unicode encoding knowledge

Job description

Mercor is seeking a contract data annotator to locate publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements, and to bound and classify every region for precise reading order.

You will transcribe faithfully in Malayalam, flag illegible sections, and document page metadata such as language, layout type, sources and handwriting indicators. Collaboration with teammates ensures accuracy and consistency across complex documents.