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 2%

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 assigned PDF pages • Confirm each page is in Japanese, legible, contains real content, and has no personal details • Identify and bound every meaningful page region, including titles, headings, paragraphs, lists, tables, figures, diagrams, captions, formulas, questions, and answer fields • Assign component types and reading-order indices • Link regions to their associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers • Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content • Flag regions where the source is not legible • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags • Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced Japanese expert • Work with real published Japanese documents such as newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets

🎯 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 • Native fluency in Japanese • Character-level accuracy in Japanese transcription • Ability to apply a taxonomy consistently across hundreds of pages • Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms • Familiarity with Japanese documents and unfamiliar layouts • 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 • Competitive pay • Referral earnings of up to $140 per successful referral (restrictions may apply) • Reasonable accommodations upon request