PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Odiya

The role of a PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert in Odiya involves working on a project that aims to create training data for document understanding in languages that are less commonly handled by parsing and vision-language models. The company, Mercor, focuses on building datasets for languages like Odiya, alongside other Indic scripts, Japanese, and Korean. The goal is to improve the performance of document AI in handling diverse and complex document structures. The main day-to-day responsibilities include opening and checking tasks, annotating the structure of PDF pages, recording relationships between different components, transcribing text faithfully, capturing page metadata, and reviewing a colleague's work. Each task involves confirming the page is in Odiya, legible, and contains real content. The expert identifies and bounds every meaningful region of the page, assigns component types and reading-order indices, and links regions to their corresponding figures or tables. Transcriptions must be exact, reproducing all text as it appears in Odiya script, including handwritten content. Metadata such as language, document type, source, and page dimensions are also recorded. Every task is reviewed end-to-end by a second Odiya expert. To qualify for this role, candidates must have native fluency in Odiya, including a full command of the Odiya script, its diacritics, and conjunct forms. Experience with documents, such as annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review, is essential. The role requires a high level of accuracy and systematic approach, as character-level accuracy is crucial. Candidates should be comfortable working with unfamiliar layouts, including multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms. Nice-to-have skills include experience with regional-language AI data, such as annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation for training datasets. Additional skills in transcription and localization, document production, and script and encoding are also beneficial. The location, team, conditions, or growth opportunities are not specified in the description. What the role asks for: - Native fluency in Odiya, including full command of the script, its diacritics, and conjunct forms. - Experience with documents, such as annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review. - High level of accuracy and systematic approach. - Comfort with unfamiliar layouts, including multi-column newspapers, exam papers, and handwritten forms.