Odia Document Annotation Specialist

Mercor; Lisbon (AR); Remote; USD 15,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts—Odia for a remote contract position paying $13/hour. You will annotate and transcribe Odia PDFs with exact script accuracy and review tasks for quality, working with multilingual document types.

Ideal candidates are native Odia speakers with experience in annotation, transcription, localization, or related fields, and comfortable with complex layouts and handwritten content.

Qualifications

• Must have native Odia language skills with full script command.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, or regional-language data review.
• Exact character-level accuracy across pages.
• Systematic taxonomy application across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source documents: locate a publicly accessible Odia PDF in an assigned type with multimodal elements and record the source.
• Annotate structure: bound every meaningful region, assign component type and reading-order index.
• Record relationships: link regions to their parent component (e.g., figure or table).
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce text exactly in Odia script, flag illegible areas.

Skills

Native Odia speaker

Attention to detail

Quality assurance

Transcription accuracy

Tools

OCR correction

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

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents: Find a publicly accessible Odia PDF in an assigned document type with multimodal elements. Record the source.
• Annotate structure: Identify and bound every meaningful region of the page. Assign each a component type and a reading-order index.
• Record relationships: Link each region to its parent component, such as a figure or table.
• Transcribe faithfully: Reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Odia script, including handwritten content. Flag any illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: Document language, type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work: Conduct end-to-end reviews of tasks by a second Odia expert.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native Odia speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, 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, grading, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
• Document production skills: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Odia-language material.
• Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Odia input methods, numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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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