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

💵 $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 provided Japanese PDF-page tasks • Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content, and show 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 indexes • Link regions to their parent figures or tables • Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content • Flag illegible source regions • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting • Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced annotator • Produce human-authored training data for document AI and frontier AI models

🎯 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 language skills required: Japanese • Must be able to reproduce Japanese text in the original script rather than romaji • Independent contractor status • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role • Work on your own schedule • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered • Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance • Competitive pay • Collaborate with leading researchers • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Referral payments of up to $140 for each successful referral, subject to limits