Mercor
Japanese PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert
Zürich · ZH
RemoteEnglisch
- Berufsfeld
- Medien, Kultur & Übersetzung · Übersetzung & Dolmetschen
- Ausbildung
- Keine bestimmte Ausbildung
- Lohn
- Geschätzt CHF 60’000–90’000 pro Jahr (100 %)
- Schätzung von jopp, nicht aus dem Inserat.
- Erstmals gesehen
- 27. September 2026
- Zuletzt gesehen
- 27. September 2026
Mercor, which connects creative and technical talent with AI research labs, hires remotely for Japanese PDF annotation and transcription. The role sources and annotates multimodal PDFs, transcribes their contents, and reviews work by another Japanese expert.
Tasks
- Find public Japanese PDFs with multimodal elements and record their origins
- Bound meaningful regions and label component types and reading order
- Link regions to parent components such as figures or tables
- Transcribe all text, including handwritten content
- Record page metadata, document type, dimensions and content flags
- Review another Japanese expert’s work end to end
Requirements
- Native Japanese speaker with command of kanji, hiragana and katakana
- Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation or editorial work
- Character-level accuracy with priority on precision over speed
- Systematic application of a taxonomy across documents
- Comfort with vertical text and multi-column newspaper layouts
Nice to have
- Experience with AI training data annotation, labeling or bilingual evaluation
- Transcription and localization skills, including MTPE, subtitling or OCR correction
- Document production experience such as typesetting, copy-editing or proofreading
- Knowledge of Unicode normalization and Japanese input methods
Offer
- Contract engagement
- Compensation of $34 per hour
- Remote work
Summarised by jopp from the advert. The original advert is authoritative.