Malayalam Document Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/Hr

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 11,000 - 16,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is offering a remote contract role for Malayalam PDF annotation and transcription experts. You will locate Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements, annotate structures, and transcribe content verbatim in Malayalam.

You will also capture metadata and verify consistency across pages under typical QA workflows. The position requires native Malayalam fluency, precise character-level accuracy, and comfort with complex layouts.

Qualifications

• Native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, localization, or data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy across all tasks.
• Systematic taxonomy application across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts, including multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source documents: find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and record their sources.
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page and assign component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships: link each region to its parent component through an identifier.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script, flagging illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: document language, type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: experienced annotators review tasks end to end.

Skills

Malayalam language

Annotation experience

Transcription experience

Localization experience

Exact character-level accuracy

Taxonomy application

Tools

Unicode normalization

OCR correction

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 – Malayalam
Type: Contract
Compensation: $13/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents: find publicly accessible Malayalam PDFs with multimodal elements and record their sources.
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page and assign component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships: link each region to its parent component through an identifier.
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Malayalam script, flagging illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: document language, type, source, dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: experienced annotators review tasks end to end.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Malayalam speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy.
• Systematic application of 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: typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading.
• Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization, input methods, numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.

Resources & Support

• For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
• For any help or support, reach out to: [e-mail]

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