PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

🔥 1 hour ago

🌐 Japan, Canada, +2 more countries – Remote

🇯🇵 Japan – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $33 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 3%

What it means: how likely this posting is sitting open without active hiring.How to read it: 60% or higher means we think this is a ghost. Lower scores are less of a worry.How we score it: age, reposts, open roles vs team size, how fast jobs close, and whether pay is listed.Fine print: an estimate from public data, not a judgment of the company. Real jobs can score high, so treat it as a hint, not a fact.

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Mercor

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $350M Series C - Mercor on 2025-10

Mercor is a company for which no descriptive text was provided in the input. Additional information (products, services, target customers, or industry specifics) is needed to create an accurate summary and select appropriate industries.

📋 Description

• Open and check provided PDF-page tasks • Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content and show no personal details • Identify and bound every meaningful page region • Assign component types and reading-order indexes • Link regions to their parent figures or tables • Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including Japanese scripts, furigana and handwritten content • Flag illegible source regions • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula and handwriting flags • Review colleagues' work end to end as a second Japanese expert when experienced • Produce human-authored training data for document AI and frontier AI systems

🎯 Requirements

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana and katakana, including furigana and variant character forms • Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, editorial work, or comparable document-intensive work • Character-level accuracy and strong attention to detail • Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages • Comfortable with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers and handwritten forms • Fluent Japanese language skills required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese • Independent contractor status • Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time • Nice-to-have: annotation, labeling, grading or bilingual evaluation for AI training datasets • Nice-to-have: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction or post-editing • Nice-to-have: Japanese typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading or digitization • Nice-to-have: Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Flexible schedule; work on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Work on real published Japanese documents rather than synthetic or templated pages • Quality-focused project with accuracy as the first measure • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Referral opportunity offering up to $140 per successful referral