PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert – Japanese

Mercor

. Open and check assigned Japanese PDF pages for language, legibility, real content, and absence of personal details .

Posted 10/17/2026contractRemote • Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $31 per hourWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Japanese language transcription and annotation, with a strong focus on character-level accuracy and attention to detail. Proficient in handling various document types and formats, including vertical text and handwritten content.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Native Japanese SpeakerFluent JapaneseProfessional Experience in TranscriptionCharacter-Level AccuracyDocument Annotation

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Hard Skills

TranscriptionAnnotationTranslationEditorial WorkDocument ReviewTaxonomy ApplicationOCR CorrectionUnicode NormalizationKanji Variant HandlingBilingual Evaluation

Soft Skills

Attention to DetailIndependent Work

Tools & Technologies

Document AIFrontier AI SystemsJapanese Input Methods

Industry Keywords

Japanese DocumentsMulti-Column NewspapersExam PapersHandwritten FormsTypesettingCopy-EditingProofreadingDigitizationMTPESubtitling

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Open and check assigned Japanese PDF pages for language, legibility, real content, and absence of 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 indices
Link regions to their associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
Transcribe all text exactly as shown, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, furigana, and handwritten content
Flag regions where the source is not legible
Capture metadata including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags
Review colleagues' work end to end as a second Japanese expert when experienced
Work with real published Japanese documents from newspapers, textbooks, examinations, flyers, forms, manuals, menus, brochures, notices, and worksheets
Produce human-authored training data for document AI and frontier AI systems

Requirements

What you’ll need

Native Japanese speaker with full command of kanji, hiragana and katakana, including furigana and variant character forms
Fluent Japanese required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
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
Comfort working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
Nice-to-have: annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for AI training datasets
Nice-to-have: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing
Nice-to-have: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Japanese-language material
Nice-to-have: Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling
Independent contractor status
Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship

Benefits

Comp & perks

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