PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

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🌐 United States, Canada, +2 more countries – Remote

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

💵 $33 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👻 Ghost score 5%

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; no document sourcing required • Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content, and have no personal details • Identify and bound every meaningful page region, assign component types, and record reading order • Link regions to their related figures or tables using parent component identifiers • Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including Japanese scripts, furigana, and handwriting • 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 • Produce human-authored training data for document AI models

🎯 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 • Fluent Japanese language skills required • Ability to work as an independent contractor • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role that can be completed 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 • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Up to $140 for each successful referral, subject to referral limits