PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Bengali

Mercor; United States; Remote; USD 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks a native Bengali speaker for a rigorous data annotation role focused on Bengali documents. You will identify and bound every meaningful region, assign types and reading order, and ensure exact transcription in Bengali script across complex layouts.

You will also verify page content, capture metadata, and collaborate in end-to-end reviews to maintain high accuracy. Attention to detail and systematic taxonomy are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Native Bengali with full command of Bengali script and orthography.
• Experience with annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
• Character-level accuracy is essential; adherence to a consistent taxonomy.
• Comfortable with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column documents and handwritten content.

Responsibilities

• Open and check a task: verify Bengali content and legibility before annotating.
• Annotate structure by bounding meaningful regions and assigning types and reading order.
• Record relationships between regions and parent components.
• Transcribe faithfully in Bengali script, flagging illegible regions.
• Capture metadata and ensure review passes at first attempt.
• Review colleague work to ensure end-to-end quality.

Skills

Native Bengali speaker

Attention to detail

Systematic approach

Job description

Fluent Language Skills Required: Bengali. Native fluency in Bengali, including full command of Bengali script and orthography, is required for this position. All annotation and transcription work is performed in Bengali.

Why This Role Exists

Document understanding breaks down fastest in the languages that parsing and vision-language models rarely see. This project builds training data for exactly those languages: Bengali, alongside four other Indic scripts, Japanese and Korean. Each task takes a real, publicly available PDF page and produces a complete structural map of that page, paired with a faithful transcription of every text region in the original script. The dataset deliberately concentrates on the material models handle worst: handwriting, dense multi-column layouts, tables, diagrams, and mixed-script pages. Documents are drawn from newspapers, textbooks, examinations, and everyday formats such as flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices and worksheets, so that the corpus reflects the real diversity of Bengali documents rather than a narrow band of easily parsed ones. Delivered work is human-authored throughout. Component identification, component typing, reading order and all transcription are performed by people, not generated by parsing models.

What You'll Do

• Open and check a task: pages are provided, so you do not source documents yourself. We find the PDFs and upload them for you. Before annotating, confirm the page is in Bengali, is legible, has real content, and shows no personal details
• Annotate structure: identify and bound every meaningful region of the page - document title, section heading, paragraph, list, table, figure, diagram, caption, formula, question, answer field - and assign each a component type and a reading-order index
• Record relationships: link each region to the figure or table it belongs to through a parent component identifier
• Transcribe faithfully: reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Bengali script, including handwritten content, flagging any region where the source is not legible
• Capture page metadata: language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas and handwriting
• Review a colleague's work: every task is reviewed end to end by a second Bengali expert, and experienced annotators take on that review

Who You Are

• You are a native Bengali speaker with full command of the script, its diacritics and its conjunct forms
• You have worked with documents: annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review
• You are exact: character-level accuracy matters more here than speed, and a single wrong diacritic is a defect
• You are systematic: you apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages rather than improvising per document
• You are comfortable with unfamiliar layouts: multi-column newspapers, exam papers, handwritten forms

Nice-to-Have Specialties

• Regional-language AI data: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for training datasets
• Transcription and localization: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction or post-editing
• Document production: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Bengali-language material
• Script and encoding: Unicode normalization, Bengali input methods, numeral-form and character-form accuracy

What Success Looks Like

• Every meaningful region on the page is captured, correctly bounded and correctly typed
• Reading order reflects how the page is actually read, including across columns
• Transcriptions match the source character for character, in Bengali script rather than transliteration
• Tasks pass second-expert review the first time
• Unsuitable pages are flagged up front rather than after thirty minutes of work

Why Join Mercor

Build the training data that makes document AI work in scripts it currently handles badly. Work from real published Bengali documents rather than synthetic or templated pages. Quality leads on this project: accuracy is the first measure, with handling time tracked alongside it.