Japanese Transcription Expert - Remote | Upto $33/hr
mercor
SwitzerlandPosted about 1 month agoDiscoveredMatch locked
RemoteContractorContent Creator
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
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.
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.
•
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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Skills
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