PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

🔥 15 hours ago

🌐 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 provided PDF 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 related figures or tables using parent component identifiers • Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana and handwritten content • Flag illegible regions • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula and handwriting flags • Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced annotator • Work on human-authored training data for document AI

🎯 Requirements

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana, katakana, 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 with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers and handwritten forms • Japanese fluency is required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese • Independent contractor status • Must not be an H-1B or STEM OPT candidate • Nice-to-have: AI training data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation • 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 own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Competitive pay • Collaborate with leading researchers • Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems • Referral payments of up to $140 per successful referral