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 – Japanese
Type: Contract
Compensation: $34/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Source documents by finding publicly accessible Japanese PDFs with multimodal elements and record their origins.
- Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region, assigning component types and reading-order indices.
- Record relationships by linking regions to their parent components like figures or tables.
- Transcribe faithfully, reproducing all text exactly as it appears, including kanji , hiragana , katakana , and handwritten content.
- Capture page metadata such as language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables and handwriting.
- Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end-to-end by a second Japanese expert.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji , hiragana , and katakana .
- Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
- Exact character-level accuracy, prioritizing precision over speed.
- Systematic approach, applying a taxonomy consistently across documents.
- Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.
Preferred
- Experience with AI training data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
- Skills in transcription and localization, including MTPE , subtitling, and OCR correction.
- Document production experience such as typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading.
- Knowledge of script and encoding, including Unicode normalization and Japanese input methods.
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