PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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🌐 Japan, Canada, +2 more countries – Remote

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

💵 $33 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✨ Japanese

👻 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

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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 Japanese PDF annotation tasks for legibility, real content and absence of personal details • Annotate and bound meaningful page regions, assign component types and reading-order indexes • Record relationships between regions and their associated figures or tables • Transcribe all text faithfully in Japanese script, including handwritten content, furigana and variant characters • Flag illegible source regions • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table/formula/handwriting metadata • Review colleagues’ work end to end as a second Japanese expert when experienced • Work with published Japanese documents to create training data for document 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 • Ability to apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages • Comfort working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers and handwritten forms • Fluent Japanese language skills required • Must be able to work as an independent contractor • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Flexible schedule / work on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Opportunity to work on AI training projects with leading AI labs and enterprises • Competitive pay • Referral opportunity: earn up to $140 for each successful referral