[Hiring] PDF Annotation Specialist @Mercor

Role Description

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 – Gujarati

Type: Contract

Compensation: $13/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Source documents by finding publicly accessible Gujarati PDFs with multimodal elements like images, tables, or handwriting.
• Annotate structure by identifying and bounding meaningful regions such as titles, headings, and figures, and assign component types and reading-order indices.
• Record relationships by linking each region to its parent component, such as figures or tables.
• Transcribe text faithfully in Gujarati script, including handwritten content, and flag illegible regions.
• Capture page metadata including language, document type, source, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
• Review a colleague's work, ensuring tasks are reviewed end to end by a second Gujarati expert.

Qualifications

• Must-Have: Native Gujarati speaker with full command of the script.
• Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, or regional-language data review.
• High character-level accuracy.
• Systematic approach to applying taxonomy across pages.
• Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.
• Preferred: Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, or bilingual evaluation.
• Skills in transcription and localization, such as MTPE, subtitling, or OCR correction.
• Document production experience in typesetting, copy-editing, or proofreading Gujarati-language material.
• Knowledge of script and encoding, including Unicode normalization.

Application Process

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

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