Odia Transcription Expert - Fully Remote | Upto $12/Hr

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 13,000 - 16,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF annotation and transcription experts fluent in Odia for remote contract work. You will annotate, bound, and transcribe Odia PDFs with precise character-level accuracy, and record page metadata.

You will collaborate with a second Odia expert to review completed tasks, ensuring high quality outputs. Ideal candidates are native Odia speakers with experience in annotation, transcription, localization, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.

Qualifications

• Native Odia speaker with script mastery.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, or localization.
• Exact character-level accuracy required.
• Systematic taxonomy application across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column documents.

Responsibilities

• Source Odia PDFs and record the source.
• Annotate and bound each region with type and reading-order index.
• Link regions to their parent components (e.g., figure, table).
• Transcribe faithfully in Odia script; flag illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata: language, type, source, dimensions, tables, formulas, handwriting.
• Review colleague work as part of a second Odia expert review.

Skills

Odia annotation

Transcription

Localization

Proofreading

Journalism

Tools

MTPE

OCR correction

Unicode normalization

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.