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 4%

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 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 associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers • Transcribe all text exactly as it appears, 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' annotation work end to end • Produce human-authored structural annotations and transcriptions for AI training data

🎯 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 attention to detail • Ability to apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages • Comfortable working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms • Fluent Japanese required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese • Independent contractor status • Must be able to work with unfamiliar document layouts • 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 • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Competitive pay • Opportunity to work with leading researchers • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems • Referral bonus of up to $140 per successful referral • Reasonable accommodations upon request