Remote Gujarati Transcription & Annotation Specialist

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 11,467,000 - 15,637,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a highly skilled PDF annotation and transcription expert fluent in Gujarati to work remotely on a contract basis. You will source Gujarati PDFs with multimodal elements, annotate structure, transcribe in Gujarati script (including handwriting), and capture page metadata.

You’ll review colleague work, ensuring end-to-end quality by a second Gujarati expert. The role demands native Gujarati, high accuracy, and comfort with complex layouts such as multi-column newspapers or

Qualifications

• Native Gujarati speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, or regional-language data review.
• High character-level accuracy.
• Systematic approach to applying taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Gujarati PDFs with multimodal elements like images, tables, or handwriting.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding meaningful regions such as titles, headings, and figures, and assign component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships by linking each region to its parent component, such as figures or tables.
• Transcribe text faithfully in Gujarati script, including handwritten content, and flag illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata including language, document type, source, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end to end by a second Gujarati expert.

Skills

Gujarati language

Annotation experience

Transcription accuracy

Systematic taxonomy application

Handwritten/complex layouts

Job description

Mercor is seeking a highly skilled PDF annotation and transcription expert fluent in Gujarati to work remotely on a contract basis. You will source Gujarati PDFs with multimodal elements, annotate structure, transcribe in Gujarati script (including handwriting), and capture page metadata.

You’ll review colleague work, ensuring end-to-end quality by a second Gujarati expert. The role demands native Gujarati, high accuracy, and comfort with complex layouts such as multi-column newspapers or