PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Gujarati

The role of a PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert in Gujarati 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 Gujarati, along with other Indic scripts, Japanese, and Korean. The primary goal is to enhance the performance of document AI in handling diverse and complex document formats. 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, and capturing page metadata. Experts must confirm the legibility and content of each page, identify and bound meaningful regions, assign component types and reading-order indices, link regions to their parent components, and transcribe text exactly as it appears. Additionally, experts review the work of colleagues to ensure accuracy and consistency. To qualify for this role, candidates must have native fluency in Gujarati, including a full command of the Gujarati script, its diacritics, and conjunct forms. Experience with document work 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 precision 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, transcription and localization, document production, and script and encoding. The location, team, conditions, or growth opportunities are not specified in the description. What the role asks for: - Native fluency in Gujarati, including full command of Gujarati script, its diacritics and conjunct forms. - Experience with document work 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.