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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 – Odia
Type: Contract
Compensation: $13/hour
Location: Remote
Role Responsibilities
Source documents: Find a publicly accessible Odia PDF in an assigned document type with multimodal elements. Record the source.
Annotate structure: Identify and bound every meaningful region of the page. Assign each a component type and a reading-order index.
Record relationships: Link each region to its parent component, such as a figure or table.
Transcribe faithfully: Reproduce all text exactly as it appears in Odia script , including handwritten content. Flag any illegible regions.
Capture page metadata: Document language, type, source, page dimensions, and flags for tables, formulas, and handwriting.
Review a colleague's work: Conduct end-to-end reviews of tasks by a second Odia expert .
Qualifications Must-Have Native Odia speaker with full command of the script.
Experience in annotation, transcription, translation, localization, subtitling, proofreading, journalism, or regional-language data review.
Exact character-level accuracy.
Systematic application of taxonomy across pages.
Comfort with unfamiliar layouts like multi-column newspapers and handwritten forms.
Preferred Experience with regional-language AI data annotation, labeling, grading, or bilingual evaluation.
Skills in transcription and localization: MTPE , subtitling, bilingual QA, OCR correction, or post-editing.
Document production skills: typesetting, copy-editing, proofreading, or digitization of Odia-language material.
Knowledge of script and encoding: Unicode normalization , Odia input methods , numeral-form, and character-form accuracy.
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