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Japanese Pdf Annotation Specialist
Job in
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listed on 2026-10-15
Listing for:
Mercor
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-15
Job specializations:
-
Language/Bilingual
Bilingual
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark
, General Catalyst
, Peter Thiel
, Adam D'Angelo
, Larry Summers
, and Jack Dorsey
.
Position: PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Japanese
Type:
Contract
Compensation: $34/hour
Location:
Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Source documents by finding publicly accessible Japanese PDFS with multimodal elements and record their origins.
- Annotate structure by identifying and bounding every meaningful region, assigning component types and reading-order indices.
- Record relationships by linking regions to their parent components like figures or tables.
- Transcribe faithfully, reproducing all text exactly as it appears, including kanji
, hiragana
, katakana
, and handwritten content. - Capture page metadata such as language, document type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables and handwriting.
- Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end-to-end by a second Japanese expert.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji
, hiragana
, and katakana
. - Professional experience in interpretation, journalism, transcription, translation, or editorial work.
- Exact character-level accuracy, prioritizing precision over speed.
- Systematic approach, applying a taxonomy consistently across documents.
- Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like vertical text and multi-column newspapers.
Preferred
- Experience with AI training data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
- Skills in transcription and localization, including MTPE
, subtitling, and OCR correction. - Document production experience such as typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading.
- Knowledge of script and encoding, including Unicode normalization and Japanese input methods.
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