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

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 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.

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.

Originally posted on Himalayas