Remote Odia PDF Annotation & Transcription 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

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.