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 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 assigned PDF annotation 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 related figures or tables using parent component identifiers • 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 table, formula, and handwriting flags • Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced annotator • Produce human-authored structural maps and faithful Japanese transcriptions for AI training data • Ensure pages are accurately bounded, typed, ordered, and transcribed before second-expert review

🎯 Requirements

• Native fluency in Japanese • 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 • Systematic application of a taxonomy across hundreds of pages • Comfort with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms • Japanese-language annotation, labeling, grading, bilingual evaluation, transcription, localization, MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, post-editing, typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization experience are nice-to-have • Knowledge of Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling is nice-to-have • Must be able to work as an independent contractor • H1-B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported

🏖️ 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 • Reasonable accommodations upon request • Referral opportunity to earn up to $140 per successful referral