PDF Annotation, Transcription Expert – Japanese

Mercor

. Open and check assigned PDF pages for Japanese 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 native proficiency in Japanese, including kanji, hiragana, katakana, and furigana, with a strong focus on character-level accuracy and attention to detail in transcription and annotation tasks. Experienced in producing training data for document AI models and comfortable working with various document formats and handwritten content.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Native Japanese SpeakerCharacter-Level AccuracyTranscription ExperienceAnnotation and LabelingFluent Japanese

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Hard Skills

TranscriptionTranslationAnnotationLabelingProofreadingDigitizationUnicode NormalizationKanji Variant HandlingOCR CorrectionBilingual Evaluation

Soft Skills

Attention to DetailIndependent Work

Industry Keywords

Document AIEditorial WorkMulti-Column NewspapersVertical TextExam PapersHandwritten FormsBilingual QAMTPESubtitlingTypesetting

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Open and check assigned PDF pages for Japanese 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 page metadata including language, document type, source, page dimensions, and table, formula, and handwriting flags
Review colleagues' work end to end as an experienced Japanese expert
Produce human-authored training data for document AI models using real published Japanese documents

Requirements

What you’ll need

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
Comfort working with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms
Fluent Japanese required; all annotation and transcription work is performed in Japanese
Must be able to reproduce Japanese text in the original script rather than romaji
Nice to have experience with annotation, labeling, grading, bilingual evaluation, MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, post-editing, typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, digitization, Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width and half-width forms, and kanji variant handling
Independent contractor engagement
Unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates

Benefits

Comp & perks

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 pay
Reasonable accommodations upon request
Referral opportunity earning up to $140 per successful referral (referral limits apply)