Telugu Document Annotation Specialist

Mercor; San Francisco (CA); Remote; GBP 11,000 - 16,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Telugu for a remote contract position. Compensation is $13/hour. You will source Telugu PDFs, annotate page regions, and transcribe content in Telugu.

Ideal candidates are native Telugu speakers with experience in document annotation or transcription and strong attention to detail. Familiarity with handwritten content and multi-column layouts is a plus.

Qualifications

• Native fluency in Telugu and script.
• Experience with document annotation or transcription.
• Attention to character-level accuracy.
• Systematic taxonomy application across pages.
• Comfort with multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Responsibilities

• Source Telugu PDFs with multimodal elements.
• Annotate structure and reading order.
• Record relationships between regions and parent components.
• Transcribe text faithfully in Telugu script.
• Capture page metadata and flags (language, type, source, dimensions).
• Review a colleague's work end-to-end.

Skills

Telugu fluency

Annotation experience

Attention to detail

Systematic approach

Unfamiliar layouts

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

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Telugu PDFs with multimodal elements. Record the source of each document.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region of the page. Assign each a component type and reading-order index.
• Record relationships by linking each region to its parent component, such as a figure or table.
• Transcribe text faithfully in Telugu script, including handwritten content. Flag any illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work thoroughly. Experienced annotators take on end-to-end reviews.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Native fluency in Telugu, including full command of the script.
• Experience with document annotation, transcription, or related fields.
• Attention to detail with character-level accuracy.
• Systematic approach to applying taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.

Preferred

• Experience with regional-language AI data annotation or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription, localization, and OCR correction.
• Knowledge of Unicode normalization and Telugu input methods.