PDF Annotation, Transcription Experts – 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 1%

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

• Find publicly accessible Japanese PDFs in assigned document types and record their sources • Identify and bound every meaningful page region • 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 Japanese scripts, furigana, and handwritten content • 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 • Produce human-authored training data for document AI • Ensure layout diversity and accurate representation of Japanese documents

🎯 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 with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms • Fluent language skills required: Japanese • Ability to find publicly accessible Japanese PDFs in assigned document types containing at least one multimodal element • Ability to identify, bound, type, and order document regions • Ability to transcribe kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content faithfully • Independent contractor status • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship • Nice-to-have: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for AI training data • Nice-to-have: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing • Nice-to-have: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Japanese-language material • 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 payment • Collaborate with leading researchers • Help shape the next generation of AI systems • Referral program offering up to $140 per successful referral