PDF Annotation & Transcription Experts – Malayalam

The role of a PDF Annotation & Transcription Expert in Malayalam 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 Malayalam, 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 to ensure the provided PDF pages are in Malayalam, legible, and contain real content. Experts must annotate the structure of each page, identifying and bounding meaningful regions such as titles, headings, paragraphs, tables, and diagrams. They also record relationships between regions, transcribe text faithfully, and capture page metadata. Additionally, experts review the work of their colleagues to ensure accuracy and consistency. To qualify for this role, candidates must have native fluency in Malayalam, including a full command of the script, its diacritics, and conjunct forms. Experience with document work such as annotation, transcription, translation, or proofreading is essential. The role requires a high level of accuracy and systematic approach, as character-level precision is crucial. Familiarity with unfamiliar layouts, such as multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms, is also necessary. Nice-to-have skills include experience with regional-language AI data, transcription and localization, and document production. Knowledge of script and encoding, such as Unicode normalization and Malayalam input methods, is also beneficial. The role offers the opportunity to work with real, published Malayalam documents, ensuring that the training data reflects the diversity of actual documents rather than synthetic or templated pages. The team at Mercor prioritizes quality and accuracy, making this an ideal role for those who enjoy meticulous work and are passionate about improving document AI in underrepresented languages. What the role asks for: - Native fluency in Malayalam, including full command of the script, its diacritics, and conjunct forms. - Experience with document work such as annotation, transcription, translation, or proofreading. - High level of accuracy and systematic approach. - Familiarity with unfamiliar layouts, such as multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.