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Mercor

PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Japanese

Mercor

. Open and check assigned PDF page tasks .

Posted 9/17/2026contractRemote • Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $34 per hourWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates native Japanese language proficiency with expertise in kanji, hiragana, katakana, and furigana, ensuring character-level accuracy in transcription and annotation tasks. Capable of applying consistent taxonomies across diverse document types, including handwritten forms and multi-column layouts.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Native Japanese SpeakerCharacter-Level AccuracyDocument Annotation ExperienceTranscription and Translation SkillsAttention to Detail

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Hard Skills
TranscriptionTranslationDocument AnnotationTaxonomy ApplicationJapanese Language Proficiency
Soft Skills
Attention to DetailIndependent Work
Tools & Technologies
Unicode NormalizationJapanese Input Methods
Industry Keywords
AI Training Data AnnotationBilingual EvaluationMTPESubtitlingProofreading

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Open and check assigned PDF page tasks
  • Confirm pages are in Japanese, legible, contain real content and have no personal details
  • Identify and bound every meaningful page region
  • Assign component types and reading-order indexes
  • Link regions to associated figures or tables using parent component identifiers
  • Transcribe all text exactly as it appears, including Japanese scripts, furigana and handwriting
  • Flag illegible regions
  • Capture language, document type, source, page dimensions and table/formula/handwriting flags
  • Review colleagues’ annotation work end to end as an experienced annotator
  • Flag unsuitable pages before annotation

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 with vertical text, multi-column newspapers, exam papers and handwritten forms
  • Japanese language skills required; all work is performed in Japanese
  • Independent contractor engagement
  • Must not require H1-B or STEM OPT sponsorship
  • Nice-to-have: AI training data annotation, labeling, grading or bilingual evaluation experience
  • Nice-to-have: MTPE, subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction or post-editing experience
  • Nice-to-have: Japanese typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading or digitization experience
  • Nice-to-have: Unicode normalization, Japanese input methods, full-width/half-width forms or kanji variant handling

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Fully remote role
  • Flexible schedule; work can be completed on your own schedule
  • Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
  • Potential project extensions
  • Reasonable accommodations upon request
  • Competitive pay
  • Opportunity to collaborate with leading researchers and work on frontier AI projects