PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert – Japanese

🔥 1 hour ago

🌐 Japan, Canada, +2 more countries – Remote

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

💵 $31 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 9%

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 Japanese PDF pages for language, legibility, real content, and absence of 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 metadata including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags • Review colleagues' work end to end as a second Japanese expert when experienced • Work with real published Japanese documents from newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets • Produce human-authored training data for document AI and frontier AI systems

🎯 Requirements

• Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana and katakana, including furigana and variant character forms • Fluent Japanese required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese • 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 • Comfort working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms • 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: 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 • Independent contractor status • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship

🏖️ 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 collaborate with leading researchers • Referral payments of up to $140 for each successful referral, subject to referral limits • Reasonable accommodations upon request